How and why climate variability differs between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1609-1612

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Tanimoto, Youichi ^b   Noguchi, Hideyuki ^a   Matsuno, Taroh ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLING MODELING; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

EID: 0033153636     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900308     Document Type: Article

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