Impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on European climate

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Brönnimann, Stefan ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 36448956083     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006RG000199     Document Type: Review

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