Tropical Pacific decadal variability and its relation to decadal modulations of ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3761-3774

  Rodgers, Keith B ^a   Friederichs, Petra ^b   Latif, Mojib ^c  

^a Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOANALYSIS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

EID: 4344643044     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3761:TPDVAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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