Long-term changes in the equatorial Pacific trade winds

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1020-1029

  Clarke, Allan J ^a   Lebedev, Anna ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EL NINO; LA NINA; LONG TERM CHANGE; LONG TERM CHANGES; SURFACE PRESSURE; TRADE WIND; TRADE WINDS; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030517156     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<1020:LTCITE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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