Seasonal locking of the ENSO asymmetry and its influence on the seasonal cycle of the tropical eastern Pacific sea surface temperature

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-9

  An, Soon Il ^a   Choi, Jung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; El Nino; Nonlinearity; Seasonal cycle

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ASYMMETRY; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DATA SETS; DECADAL CHANGE; EASTERN PACIFIC; EL NINO; LARGE AMPLITUDE; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NONLINEARITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONALITY; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ASYMMETRY; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NONLINEARITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 68149138447     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.09.029     Document Type: Article

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