A dipole mode in the tropical Indian ocean

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6751, 1999, Pages 360-363

  Saji, N H ^a   Goswami, B N ^b   Vinayachandran, P N ^a   Yamagata, T ^a,c  

^a Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DIPOLE; DYNAMICS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033598345     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43854     Document Type: Article

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