Interactions between the responses of North American climate to El Niño-La Niña and to the secular warming trend in the India-Western Pacific Oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 476-494

  Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Leetmaa, Ants ^a   Nath, Mary Jo ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NIÑO; HEAT WAVES; LA NIÑA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DROUGHT; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 40849097981     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1899.1     Document Type: Article

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