The termination of the 1997-98 El Niño. Part II: Mechanisms of atmospheric change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2647-2664

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33644689062     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3780.1     Document Type: Article

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