ENSO modulation: Is it decadally predictable?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2667-2681

  Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODULATION;

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; EXTRATROPICAL; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERDECADAL; MODEL EVALUATION; ORBITAL VARIATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84896958301     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00577.1     Document Type: Article

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