Investigating ENSO sensitivity to mean climate in an intermediate model using a novel statistical technique

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Faming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERMEDIATE MODEL; KURTOSIS; SKEWNESS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34250770058     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029348     Document Type: Article

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