Spatial and temporal features of ENSO meridional scales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Wenjun ^a,b   Li, Jianping ^b   Jin, Fei Fei ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIMING DEVICES;

EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTERDECADAL CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL FEATURES; WALKER CIRCULATION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPWELLING; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 70350007927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038672     Document Type: Article

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