A review of interdecadal changes in the nonlinearity of the El Ninño-Southern Oscillation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-40

  An, Soon Il ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIXED LAYER; NONLINEARITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 67649388169     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0071-z     Document Type: Article

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