The relationships between tropical Atlantic sea level variability and major climate indices

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 56, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 452-463

  Andrew, Jennifer A M ^a   Leach, Harry ^a   Woodworth, Philip L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic biennial variability; Atlantic ENSO connections; Tropical Atlantic climate connections; Tropical Atlantic sea levels

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; OSCILLATIONS; TIDE GAGES;

ATLANTIC BIENNIAL VARIABILITY; ATLANTIC-ENSO CONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC CLIMATE CONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC SEA LEVELS;

SEA LEVEL;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; OSCILLATIONS; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAGES;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDE GAUGE; TOPEX-POSEIDON; TROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 33845918259     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-006-0068-z     Document Type: Article

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