ENSO regimes: Reinterpreting the canonical and Modoki El Nio

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Takahashi, K ^a   Montecinos, A ^b   Goubanova, K ^a,c   Dewitte, B ^a,c  

^a Instituto Geofí Sico Del Perú ^*  (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS;

EASTERN PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; RECENT TRENDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79957948430     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047364     Document Type: Article

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