Meridional Wind Stress Anomalies over Tropical Pacific and the Onset of El Niño. Part I: Data Analysis

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Zhang, Renhe ^a   Zhao, Gang ^a   Tan, Yanke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Meridional wind stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346026481     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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