Extratropical forcing of El Niño-Southern Oscillation asymmetry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4916-4921

  Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Furtado, Jason C ^b   Cobb, Kim M ^c   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO asymmetry; ENSO flavor; ENSO precursors; ocean atmosphere coupling; tropical extratropical interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE RESPONSE; ENSO ASYMMETRY; ENSO PRECURSORS; NEAR-SURFACE CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84884479810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50951     Document Type: Article

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