Quantifying the Role of Tropical Indian Ocean Observations to Central Pacific El Niño Prediction
Xiaojing Li1, Youmin Tang2, Michael J McPhaden3, Lei Zhou4, Yi Li5, Xunshu Song6, Tao Lian7 and Dake Chen1, (1)Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Hangzhou, China, (2)University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (3)NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, United States, (4)Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Oceanography, Shanghai, China, (5)Hohai University, Nanjing, China, (6)Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, China, (7)Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China