The years of El Niño, La Niña and interactions with the tropical Indian Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2872-2880

  Meyers, Gary ^a   McIntosh, Peter ^a   Pigot, Lidia ^a   Pook, Mike ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RAIN; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; OCEANIC PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34547115440     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4152.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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