The Multiple Scales of El Niño

Author: 
Cécile Penland
Date: 
Mon, Jul 30, 2007
Location: 
University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Conference: 
Summer School on Tropical Multiscale Convective Systems
Abstract: 

• Climatology (What’s normal?)
• Basic properties of El Niño
• Linear Inverse Modeling
• Non-normal growth and the optimal structure
• Short scales: What constitutes stochastic forcing?
• Long scales: Connection between El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

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