Interdecadal variations in ENSO teleconnection to the Indo-Western Pacific for 1870-2007

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1722-1744

  Chowdary, J S ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,c   Tokinaga, Hiroki ^a   Okumura, Yuko M ^a,d   Kubota, Hisayuki ^e   Johnson, Nat ^a   Zheng, Xiao Tong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Decadal variability; El Nino; ENSO; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EL NINO; ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; MODULATION; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RAINFALL; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84858198843     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00070.1     Document Type: Article

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