The ENSO signal in the stratosphere

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1146, Issue , 2008, Pages 16-31

  Calvo, Natalia ^a,b   García Herrera, Ricardo ^b   Garcia, Rolando R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climatology; ENSO variability; Stratosphere dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EL NINO DOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LATITUDE; METHODOLOGY; SEA; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 57249108380     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1446.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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