Salinity anomaly as a trigger for ENSO events

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Zhang, Rong Hua ^c   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^d   Kumar, Arun ^d   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^e   Marx, Lawrence ^a   Kinter, James L ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD STRESS; FORECASTING; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SALINITY; SEA; SPRING; SUMMER;

EID: 84961289630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06821     Document Type: Article

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