Subsurface ocean temperature indices for Central-Pacific and Eastern-Pacific types of El Niño and La Niña events

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 337-344

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a   Kao, Hsun Ying ^b   Lee, Tong ^c   Kim, Seon Tae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO; LA NINA; PERIODICITY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 79951811574     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-010-0307-6     Document Type: Article

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