Multidecadal variability in the transmission of ENSO signals to the Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Shi, G ^a,b   Ribbe, J ^a   Cai, W ^b   Cowan, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WATER WAVES;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; ROSSBY WAVE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34347223203     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029528     Document Type: Article

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