Are greenhouse gases changing ENSO precursors in the Western North Pacific?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6309-6322

  Wang, Shih Yu ^a   L'heureux, Michelle ^b   Yoon, Jin Ho ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET);

GREENHOUSE GASES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84883184363     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00360.1     Document Type: Article

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