Recent trends in the seasonal and temporal behaviour of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Nicholls, Neville ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLOBAL WARMING; MILITARY OPERATIONS;

RECENT TRENDS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDICES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EID: 57749200121     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034499     Document Type: Article

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