The impact of westerly wind bursts and ocean initial state on the development, and diversity of El Niño events

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1381-1401

  Fedorov, Alexey V ^a   Hu, Shineng ^a   Lengaigne, Matthieu ^b   Guilyardi, Eric ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate models; El Ni o dynamics; El Ni o flavors; Westerly wind bursts (WWB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897122103     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2126-4     Document Type: Article

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