A simple approach to quantifying the noise–ENSO interaction. Part I: deducing the state-dependency of the windstress forcing using monthly mean data

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2017, Pages 1-18

  Levine, Aaron F Z ^a,b   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; State dependent stochastic forcing; Westerly wind bursts

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NOISE; NONLINEARITY; STOCHASTICITY; WESTERLY; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 85009174925     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2748-1     Document Type: Article

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