Relative roles of different components of the basic state in the phase locking of El Niño mature phases

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 4267-4277

  Yan, Bangliang ^a   Wu, Renguang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

EL NINO; MEAN WIND DIVERGENCE; ROSSBY WAVES; SEASONAL VARIATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO; KELVIN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREND ANALYSIS; UPWELLING; WARMING; WIND DIRECTION;

EID: 34548497612     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4242.1     Document Type: Article

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