Predictability of a coupled model of ENSO using singular vector Analysis. Part I: Optimal growth in seasonal background and ENSO cycles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2043-2056

  Xue, Yan ^a,b   Cane, M A ^a   Zebiak, S E ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 4043115093     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2043:POACMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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