Global patterns of decadal-scale variability observed in sea surface temperature and lower-tropospheric circulation fields

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C11, 2001, Pages 26805-26815

  Tomita, Tomohiko ^a,d   Wang, Bin ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^b,d   Nakamura, Hisashi ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035211885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000619     Document Type: Article

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