Historical changes in El Nio and la Nia characteristics in an ocean reanalysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ray, Sulagna ^a,b   Giese, Benjamin S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIABILITY; DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION; ENSO EVENTS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HISTORICAL CHANGES; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SURFACE ANOMALIES; TIME-BETWEEN-EVENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NIA;

EID: 84869441362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008031     Document Type: Review

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