Zonal migration of the Pacific warm-pool tongue during El Nino events

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1582-1600

  Matsuura, T ^a   Iizuka, S ^a  

^a National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; WARM POOL; WIND FORCING;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033823664     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<1582:ZMOTPW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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