How important is air-sea coupling in ENSO and MJO evolution?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2958-2977

  Newman, Matthew ^a,b   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a,b   Penland, Cécile ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA COUPLING; ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; BAND PASS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION; EIGENVECTORS; FREQUENCY FILTERING; INTERANNUAL; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; POWER-SPECTRA; SUBSTANTIAL ERRORS; TIME-SCALE; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ERRORS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 67650517815     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2659.1     Document Type: Article

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