Factors affecting ENSO's period

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1570-1586

  MacMynowski, Douglas G ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; COASTAL ZONES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LINEARIZATION; MECHANISMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REFLECTION; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ANNUAL CYCLES; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; BOUNDARY REFLECTIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DECAY TIME; DOMINANT EIGENVALUES; EIGEN VECTORS; EIGENVECTORS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMS); KELVIN WAVES; LINEARIZED MODELS; MEAN PERIOD; PARAMETER CHANGES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; PROPAGATION TIME; SENSITIVITY INFORMATION; SIMULATION-BASED; SPATIAL STRUCTURING; SST ANOMALIES; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); TIME LAGS; WAVE SIGNALS; WAVE SPEEDS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 45849112204     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2520.1     Document Type: Article

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