The 2015/16 El Niño event in context of the MERRA-2 reanalysis: A comparison of the tropical pacific with 1982/83 and 1997/98

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 4819-4842

  Lim, Young Kwon ^a   Kovach, Robin M ^a,b   Pawson, Steven ^a   Vernieres, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; El Nino; ENSO; Tropical variability; Walker circulation; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS;

EL NINO; ENSO; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL VARIABILITY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

NICKEL;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EOS; THERMOCLINE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 85020123015     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0800.1     Document Type: Article

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