Intraseasonal tropical atmospheric variability associated with the two flavors of el niño

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3669-3681

  Gushchina, Daria ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Laboratoire D'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale   (France)

Author keywords

ENSO; Intraseasonal variability; Kelvin waves; Madden Julian oscillation; oceanic; Rossby waves; Waves

Indexed keywords

ENSO; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC; ROSSBY WAVE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICS; WAVES;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ISRAEL TURKEY MENINGOENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84871912810     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00267.1     Document Type: Article

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