Relationships between extratropical sea level pressure variations and the central Pacific and eastern Pacific types of ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 708-720

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a   Kim, Seon Tae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal functions; ENSO; Extratropics; Interannual variability; Pressure

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; EASTERN PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ENSO; EXCITED MODE; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; FOOTPRINTING; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NODAL POINTS; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT FLUX; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TELECONNECTION;

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

EID: 79953783991     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3688.1     Document Type: Article

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