Coupling of biennial oceanic rossby waves with the overlying atmosphere in the pacific basin

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1236-1251

  White, Warren B ^a   Chao, Yi ^b   Tai, Chang Kou ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032446155     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1236:COBORW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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