Zonal phase propagation of ENSO sea surface temperature anomalies: Revisited

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4048-4053

  Boucharel, Julien ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

annual cycle; ENSO; Modoki; phase propagation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; COMPLEX EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; ENSO; MODOKI; PHASE PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COASTAL ZONES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; RADON TRANSFORM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84881180715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50685     Document Type: Article

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