Possible connection between Pacific Oceanic interdecadal pathway and east Asian winter monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Wen ^a,b   Li, Chongyin ^a   Wang, Xin ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; TROPICS; WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY; WINTER MONSOON;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34548018554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027809     Document Type: Article

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