Interannual warm and cool events in the subtropical/mid-latitude South Indian Ocean region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-218

  Reason, C J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; MIDLATITUDES; NEAR-SURFACE WINDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE FLUX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; MIDLATITUDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033556674     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900285     Document Type: Article

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