Strong El Niño events and nonlinear dynamical heating

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 20-1-

  Jin, Fei Fei ^a   An, Soon Il ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^b   Zhao, Jingxia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HEATING; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

NONLINEAR DYNAMIC HEATING (NDH);

GEOPHYSICS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; NONLINEARITY; WARMING;

EID: 0038336466     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016356     Document Type: Article

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