How ubiquitous is the dipole relationship in tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C4, 1999, Pages 7841-7848

  Enfield, David B ^a,b   Mestas Nuñez, Alberto M ^b   Mayer, Dennis A ^a   Cid Serrano, Luis ^c  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033560597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900109     Document Type: Article

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