Coordinated heat removal from the equatorial Pacific during the 1986-87 El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2659-2662

  Sun, De Zheng ^a,c   Trenberth, Kevin E ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICS; BUDGET CONTROL; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FEEDBACK; NICKEL;

EL NINO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HEAT REMOVAL;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD REFLECTION; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; NCEP REANALYSIS; POLEWARD ENERGY TRANSPORT; REGULATORY EFFECTS;

EID: 0032129106     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01813     Document Type: Article

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