S
S. George Philander
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 22
Citations - 3019
S. George Philander is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thermocline & Sea surface temperature. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 21 publications receiving 2923 citations. Previous affiliations of S. George Philander include University of Cape Town.
Papers
More filters
Book
El Niño, La Niña, and the southern oscillation
TL;DR: The Southern Oscillation (Variability of the Tropical Atmosphere). Oceanic Variability in the Tropics as mentioned in this paper is a well-known phenomenon in meteorological models of tropical weather.
Journal ArticleDOI
Is El Nino changing
TL;DR: Apparent changes in the properties of El Nino could reflect the importance of random disturbances, but they could also be a consequence of decadal variations of the background state and the possibility that global warming is affecting those variations cannot be excluded.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Stability Analysis of Tropical Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions: Bridging Measurements and Theory for El Niño
TL;DR: In this article, a stability analysis by means of a simple coupled ocean-atmosphere model indicates two distinct families of unstable modes: one has long periods of several years, involves sea surface temperature variations determined by vertical movements of the thermocline that are part of the adjustment of the ocean basin to the fluctuating winds, and corresponds to the delayed oscillator.
Journal ArticleDOI
Role of tropics in changing the response to Milankovich forcing some three million years ago
TL;DR: In this article, the authors hypothesize that the global cooling during the Cenozoic affected the thermal structure of the ocean; it caused a gradual shoaling of the thermocline.
Journal ArticleDOI
Is El Niño Sporadic or Cyclic
TL;DR: A growing body of evidence indicates that reality corresponds to a compromise between these two possibilities: the observed Southern Oscillation between El Nino and La Nina correspond to a weakly damped mode that is sustained by random disturbances as discussed by the authors.