Pacific climate change and ENSO activity in the mid-holocene

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 923-939

  Chiang, John C H ^a   Fang, Y ^a   Chang, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLES; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DATA POINTS; ENSO MODELS; FREQUENCY ENTRAINMENTS; HOLOCENE; HOLOCENE CLIMATES; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITIES; INTERMEDIATE COUPLED MODELS; ORBITAL FORCING; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; STOCHASTIC FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; TROPICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 64049107161     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2644.1     Document Type: Article

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