Extratropical control of recent tropical Pacific decadal climate variability: A relay teleconnection

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-112

  Wu, Lixin ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b   Li, Chun ^a   Sun, Yan ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33750990485     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0198-5     Document Type: Article

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