El Nino-Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation control of climate in Puerto Rico

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2713-2717

  Malmgren, Björn A ^a   Winter, Amos ^b   Chen, Deliang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean coupling; Climate; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Island; North Atlantic Oscillation; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MASS TRANSFER; MOISTURE; RAIN;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ISLAND; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0032194764     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2713:ENOSOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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