Multiscale variabilities in global sea surface temperatures and their relationships with tropospheric climate patterns

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2719-2733

  Enfield, David B ^a   Mestas Nuñez, Alberto M ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

COMPLEX EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL SIGNAL; PHASE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033190465     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2719:MVIGSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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