Slow oceanic teleconnections linking the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave with the tropical El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 24573-24583

  Peterson, Ray G ^a   White, Warren B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE SIGNAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PLANETARY WAVE; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

(SUBTROPICAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0001383412     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC01947     Document Type: Article

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