Impacts of two types of El Niño on the MJO during boreal winter

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 979-986

  Pang, Bo ^a,b   Chen, Zesheng ^c   Wen, Zhiping ^a   Lu, Riyu ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

central Pacific El Ni o; eastern Pacific El Ni o; MJO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975815243     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-016-5272-2     Document Type: Article

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