Why do some El Niños have no impact on tropical North Atlantic SST?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Sang Ki ^a,b   Enfield, David B ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BRIDGES; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTS; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BOREAL SPRINGS; BOREAL WINTERS; ENSEMBLE MODELS; INTERNAL VARIABILITIES; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE SETS; SLAB MIXED LAYER OCEAN MODELS; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 56449112990     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034734     Document Type: Article

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