Zonal displacement of western Pacific warm pool and zonal wind anomaly over the Pacific Ocean

Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-285

  Zhang, Qilong ^a,b   Zhang, Qinghua ^a,c   Hou, Yijun ^a   Xu, Jianping ^b   Weng, Xuechuan ^a   Cheng, Minghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

the western Pacific; warm pool; zonal wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 69049106684     PISSN: 02544059     EISSN: 19935005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-007-0277-4     Document Type: Article

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