Effectiveness of the Bjerknes stability index in representing ocean dynamics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2399-2414

  Graham, Felicity S ^a   Brown, Jaclyn N ^b   Langlais, Clothilde ^b   Marsland, Simon J ^b   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^c   Holbrook, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bjerknes stability index; ENSO dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966495212     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2062-3     Document Type: Article

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