Decadal variability of twentieth-century El Niño and La Niña occurrence from observations and IPCC AR4 coupled models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Xin ^a   Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Zhou, Wen ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL PEAK; TELECONNECTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANTHANUM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LA NINA; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 68949117514     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037929     Document Type: Article

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