Recent trends in sea level pressure in the Indian Ocean region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Copsey, Dan ^a,c   Sutton, Rowan ^a   Knight, Jeff R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Readinc ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDEX; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (SLP); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34047193527     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027175     Document Type: Article

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