An evaluation of rotated eof analysis and its application to tropical pacific sst variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5361-5373

  Lian, Tao ^a   Chen, Dake ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal functions; ENSO

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RESEARCH; COOLING MODE; EL NINO; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; ENSO; LOCALIZED PATTERNS; PHENOMENON IDENTIFICATION; PICKING UP; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SPACE REDUCTIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATIONARY MODES; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

COOLING; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84865077345     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00663.1     Document Type: Article

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