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SUBMITTER: Thual S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5027414 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thual Sulian S Majda Andrew J AJ Chen Nan N Stechmann Samuel N SN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160829 37
Atmospheric wind bursts in the tropics play a key role in the dynamics of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A simple modeling framework is proposed that summarizes this relationship and captures major features of the observational record while remaining physically consistent and amenable to detailed analysis. Within this simple framework, wind burst activity evolves according to a stochastic two-state Markov switching-diffusion process that depends on the strength of the western Pacific w ...[more]