State-dependent atmospheric noise associated with ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a,b   Jin, Fei Fei ^b   Sooraj, K P ^a   Kang, In Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERDECADAL CHANGE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 43549095505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032017     Document Type: Article

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