Changing trends in the tropical Indian Ocean SST during La Niña years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Chowdary, J S ^a   Gnanaseelan, C ^a,b   Vaid, B H ^a   Salvekar, P S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; SEA ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MECHANICAL WAVES; NICKEL; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE COOLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COOLING; LA NINA; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

BASIN WIDE; CHANGING TRENDS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN SST; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

EID: 34548582511     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026707     Document Type: Article

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