Are there two types of la Nina?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Ham, Yoo Geun ^b,c  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN PACIFIC; EL NINO; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LA NINA; LA NINA EVENT; MODEL OUTPUTS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASYMMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; LA NINA; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80051998721     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048237     Document Type: Article

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