Relationship between the equatorial and meridional modes of climatic variability in the tropical Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 485-488

  Servain, Jacques ^a,d   Wainer, Liana ^b   McCreary Jr , Julian P ^c   Dessier, Alain ^a,d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ABNORMAL CHANGE; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; GULF OF GUINEA; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; OCEANIC TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

EQUATORIAL MODE; MERIDIONAL MODE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0033557393     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900014     Document Type: Article

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