The impact of ENSO on wave breaking and southern annular mode events

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2854-2870

  Gong, Tingting ^a   Feldstein, Steven B ^b   Luo, Dehai ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Intraseasonal variability; Oscillations; Southern hemisphere; Summer warm season

Indexed keywords

ENSO; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; OSCILLATIONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER/WARM SEASON;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ANTICYCLONE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77958614230     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3311.1     Document Type: Article

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