Reconciling differing views of tropical pacific climate change

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Volumn 91, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 141-142

  Dinezio, Pedro ^a   Clement, Amy ^a   Gabriel Vecchi Vecchi, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LA NINA; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PERTURBATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

NIA;

EID: 77954567241     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010EO160001     Document Type: Article

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