A possible link between off-equatorial warm anomalies propagating along the NECC path and the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2873-2876

  Zhang, Rong Hua ^a   Busalacchi, Antonio J ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; NICKEL; SEA LEVEL; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS;

EL NINO PHENOMENON; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; NCEP REANALYSIS; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; PHYSICAL PICTURES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM TEMPERATURES; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

EID: 0033568908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002315     Document Type: Article

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