Ranking the strongest ENSO events while incorporating SST uncertainty

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 9165-9172

  Huang, Boyin ^a   L'Heureux, Michelle ^a   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^a   Zhang, Huai Min ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; ENSO; La Ni a; ranking; sea surface temperature; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA HANDLING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DISCRETE VALUES; ENSO; RANKING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; UNCERTAINTY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA PROCESSING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HISTOGRAM; INDEX METHOD; LA NINA; RANKING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84987677288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070888     Document Type: Article

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