A closer look at the central Pacific El Ni~no and warm pool migration events from 1982 to 2011

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-172

  Kidwell, Autumn ^a   Jo, Young Heon ^a,b   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS (EEMD); PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

LAKES;

DATA SET; EL NINO; LA NINA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TYPOLOGY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84899022408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009083     Document Type: Article

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