Removing ENSO-related variations from the climate record

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1957-1978

  Compo, Gilbert P ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE RECORD; COOLING TRENDS; DATA SETS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EIGENVECTORS; ENSO EVENTS; EXTRATROPICAL; INDIAN OCEAN; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77953700952     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2735.1     Document Type: Article

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