Frequency modulation Modelling El Nino Southern Oscillation Solar activity Temperature and rainfall
The spectral content of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is broad and complex, a characteristic shared by other climate variables. Spectral analysis of ENSO in different time intervals demonstrated that ENSO is frequency modulated. An analytical model in which the natural period of ENSO is frequency modulated by long term centennial range variation in solar activity was developed and shown to correlate well with the observed ENSO and reconstructed ENSO variation in the decadal periodicity range. A method for identifying the occurrence and the period of frequency modulation in climate variables was developed and tested.
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Is the variability of ENSO due to frequency modulation by the long term variation in solar activity?
Authors
Ian Edmonds (Corresponding Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Peter Killen
Publication details
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Vol.269, pp.1-12