Southern Hemisphere extra-tropical forcing: A new paradigm for El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2171-2199

  Terray, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

ENSO; Long range predictability; Ocean atmosphere interactions; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LONG RANGE FORECAST; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

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

EID: 79957853219     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0825-z     Document Type: Article

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