ENSO and meridional modes: A null hypothesis for Pacific climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9440-9448

  Di Lorenzo, E ^a   Liguori, G ^a   Schneider, N ^b   Furtado, J C ^c   Anderson, B T ^d   Alexander, M A ^e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Pacific climate variability; Pacific decadal variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC FEEDBACKS; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTIC EXCITATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; TELECONNECTION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84955206432     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066281     Document Type: Article

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