Tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction, the pacific cold tongue, and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5284, 1996, Pages 76-78

  Jin, F F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; INDIAN OCEAN; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE SYSTEM; ENSO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0029662821     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5284.76     Document Type: Article

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34. This work was supported by NSF grant ATM-9312888 and NOAA grant GC95773. I thank D. Neelin, T. Schroeder, and anonymous reviewers for valuable comments that improved the manuscript, D. Henderson for her careful reading of the manuscript, and the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center for providing the sea-level data. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology contribution 4134.