Examining the tropical Pacific's response to global warming

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Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Clement, Amy ^b   Soden, Brian J ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 41849123060     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008EO090002     Document Type: Article

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