How are large western hemisphere warm pools formed?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 70, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 346-365

  Enfield, David B ^a   Lee, Sang Ki ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric bridge; El Ni o; North Atlantic Oscillation; Tropical Atlantic; Western Hemisphere warm pool

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HURRICANES; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC BRIDGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WESTERN HEMISPHERE WARM POOL (WHWP);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33748091335     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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