Changes in the leading ENSO modes associated with the late 1970s climate shift: Role of surface zonal current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  An, Soon Il ^a   Ye, Zhengqing ^b   Hsieh, William W ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEARIZATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EIGEN ANALYSIS; EIGEN MODES; EIGEN STRUCTURES; SURFACE ZONAL CURRENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NONLINEAR WAVE;

EID: 33845655198     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026604     Document Type: Article

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