Tropical Indian Ocean variability revealed by self-organizing maps

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 333-343

  Tozuka, Tomoki ^a   Luo, Jing Jia ^b   Masson, Sebastien ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Indian Ocean Dipole; Seasonal phase locking; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 45849136018     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0356-4     Document Type: Article

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