Equatorial waves and the 1997-98 El Nino

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2961-2964

  McPhaden, Michael J ^a   Yu, Xuri ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL; SURFACE WATERS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; EQUATORIAL KELVIN WAVES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE;

ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; DELAYED OSCILLATORS; EQUATORIAL WAVES; INTRA-SEASONAL; MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WESTERN BOUNDARY;

EID: 0033210562     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL004901     Document Type: Article

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