The response of tropical atmospheric energy budgets to ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4710-4724

  Mayer, Michael ^a   Trenberth, Kevin E ^b   Haimberger, Leopold ^a   Fasullo, John T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY STRUCTURES; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; MUTUAL CANCELLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; TEMPORAL HOMOGENEITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL;

TROPICS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENERGY BUDGET; HEAT FLOW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84880689905     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00681.1     Document Type: Article

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