How does extratropical warming affect ENSO?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Yang, Haijun ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^b   Zhong, Yafang ^c   Vavrus, Steve ^c   Liu, Zhengyu ^c  

^a Institute of Heavy Ion Physics   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TROPICS; WATER SUPPLY;

COLD WATER SUPPLY; EXTRATROPICAL WARMING; HADLEY CELLS; UPWELLING;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WARMING;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 16344368709     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021624     Document Type: Article

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