Natural variation in ENSO flavors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Newman, Matthew ^a,b   Shin, Sang Ik ^c   Alexander, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSO EVENTS; NATURAL VARIATION; RANDOM VARIATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SST ANOMALIES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

STREAM FLOW;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROWNIAN MOTION; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL WIND;

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

EID: 79961140192     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047658     Document Type: Article

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