Decisive role of nonlinear temperature advection in El Niño and La Niña amplitude asymmetry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Duan, Wansuo ^a   Xu, Hui ^a   Mu, Mu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 42049117572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003974     Document Type: Article

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