Global warming, low-frequency variability, and biennial oscillation: An attempt to understand the physical mechanisms driving major ENSO events

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 771-786

  Yeo, Sae Rim ^a   Kim, Kwang Yul ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cyclostationary EOF; ENSO; Global modes of SST; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84905094870     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1862-1     Document Type: Article

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