4. The extreme 2015/16 El Niño, in the context of historical climate variability and change

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2018, Pages S16-S20

  Newman, Matthew ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Cheng, Linyin ^a   Compo, Gilbert P ^a   Smith, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 85048006012     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0116.1     Document Type: Article

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