The onset of the 1991-92 El Nino event in the tropical Pacific Ocean: The NECC subsurface pathway

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 847-850

  Zhang, Rong Hua ^a   Rothstein, Lewis M ^a   Busalacchi, Antonio J ^c   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DELAYED OSCILLATOR MECHANISM; EL NINO EVENT; KELVIN WAVE; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPACE TIME EVOLUTION;

DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; DELAYED OSCILLATORS; LOGICAL SEQUENCES; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; THERMAL ANOMALIES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033117418     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900111     Document Type: Article

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