Interannual ENSO variability forced through coupled atmosphere-ocean feedback loops

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Solomon, Amy ^a,b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MECHANICAL WAVES; TROPICS;

ANOMALOUS WINDS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; FEED-BACK LOOP; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NORTH PACIFIC; REDUCED GRAVITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 79960158894     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041622     Document Type: Article

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