Tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies, El Nino, and equatorial westerly wind events

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1814-1830

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,c   Harrison, D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034210162     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1814:TPSSTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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