Centroid motion of the Western Pacific warm pool during three recent El Niño-Southern Oscillation events

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 837-845

  Yan, Xiao Hai ^a   He, Yun ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^b   Zheng, Quanan ^a   Ho, Chung Ru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROID MOTION; CIRCULATION; ENSO; WARM POOL; WATER MASSES;

PACIFIC, (WEST);

EID: 0030775784     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0837:CMOTWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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