Effect of stochastic MJO forcing on ENSO predictability

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1279-1290

  Peng, Yuehua ^a,b,c   Duan, Wansuo ^a   Xiang, Jie ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b DALIAN NAVAL ACADEMY   (China)

^c PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP); El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO); Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO); model error

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960710753     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0126-4     Document Type: Article

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