An ENSO stability analysis. Part I: Results from a hybrid coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1593-1607

  Kim, Seon Tae ^a,b   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BJ index; ENSO stability; Growth rate; HCM

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWTH RATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79953672295     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0796-0     Document Type: Article

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