Climate variability of the coupled tropical-extratropical ocean-atmosphere system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3979-3982

  Wang, Chunzai ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EXTRATROPICAL COOLING; HADLEY CIRCULATION; TROPICAL WARMING; WALKER CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032215774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900082     Document Type: Article

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