Decadal Changes in CCSM3.5 ENSO Dynamics
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mean tropical state driving El Niño events for this analysis. Table 1 shows that knowledge of these quantities averaged over a 50-year window is not sufficient to determine the ENSO variability over the same window–developing more sophisticated metrics is a crucial goal of the proposed research. Nonetheless, simple lag-correlation analysis of NINO3 index and eastern Pacific thermocline depth (left) and zonal wind (right) are shown in Figure 3. Here, negative lag values indicate wind/thermocline depth leading NINO3 index.
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