On the 60-month cycle of multivariate ENSO index

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-27

  Mazzarella, Adriano ^a   Giuliacci, Andrea ^a   Liritzis, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; METEOROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77049127071     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0159-0     Document Type: Article

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