Decadal shift in El Niño influences on Indo-western Pacific and East Asian climate in the 1970s

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3352-3368

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Du, Yan ^b   Huang, Gang ^c   Zheng, Xiao Tong ^d   Tokinaga, Hiroki ^a   Hu, Kaiming ^c   Liu, Qinyu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; CLIMATE REGIME SHIFT; DOWN-WELLING; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERDECADAL CHANGES; KELVIN WAVES; MONSOON WINDS; OCEAN WARMING; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS; TIO; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND ANOMALIES; WIND PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; DECADAL VARIATION; DOWNWELLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 77954464103     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3429.1     Document Type: Article

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