The impact of atmospheric nonlinearities on the fastest growth of ENSO prediction error

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 519-531

  Zhou, Xiaobing ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a   Deng, Ziwang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 39349112488     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0302-5     Document Type: Article

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