Role of the upper ocean structure in the response of ENSO-like SST variability to global warming

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 355-369

  Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^b   Yim, Bo Young ^c   Noh, Yign ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale   (France)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AMPLITUDE; BAROCLINIC MODE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77954956843     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0849-4     Document Type: Article

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