Role of the Indo-Pacific interbasin coupling in predicting asymmetric ENSO transition and duration

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3321-3335

  Ohba, Masamichi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^b  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ENSO; Probability forecasts models distribution; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

BOREAL SPRING; COLD PHASIS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ENSO; INDIAN OCEAN; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SST ANOMALIES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ASYMMETRY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LA NINA; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84862102117     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00409.1     Document Type: Article

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