Decadal and interannual variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 856-866

  Yuan, Yuan ^a,b,c   Chan, C L Johnny ^b   Zhou, Wen ^b   Li, Chongyin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal phase variation; ENSO; Indian Ocean dipole; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049091097     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0856-0     Document Type: Article

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