Impact of El Niño onset timing on the Indian Ocean: Pacific coupling and subsequent El Niño evolution

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 17-27

  Sooraj, K P ^a   Kug, Jong Seong ^b   Li, Tim ^b   Kang, In Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO; PHASE TRANSITION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 64049112979     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0067-8     Document Type: Article

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