A pan-Atlantic decadal climate oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2185-2188

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Tanimoto, Youichi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

EXTRATROPICAL FORCING; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE COUPLING MODEL; PAN ATLANTIC DECADAL OSCILLATION (PADO);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 2042504909     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01525     Document Type: Article

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