An interdecadal climate cycle in the South Atlantic and its links to other ocean basins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 24723-24736

  Venegas, Silvia A ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a   Straub, David N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CYCLE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032532931     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02443     Document Type: Article

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