Interannual, decadal-interdecadal, and global warming signals in sea surface temperature during 1955-97

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1257-1267

  Lau, William K M ^a   Weng, Hengyi ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS;

DECADAL INTER VARIABILITY; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0039613872     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1257:IDIAGW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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