Mechanisms for the Indian Ocean warming during the 1997-98 El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 735-738

  Yu, Lisan ^a   Rienecker, Michele M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; EL NINO PHENOMENON; KELVIN WAVES; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WALKER CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033559284     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900072     Document Type: Article

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