The influence of ENSO on the generation of decadal variability in the North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 667-680

  An, Soon Il ^a   Kug, Jong Seong ^b   Timmermann, Axel ^c   Kang, In Sik ^b   Timm, Oliver ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL TELECONNECTION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; LA NINA; NONLINEARITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33847349341     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4017.1     Document Type: Article

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