Tropical Pacific response to 20th century Atlantic warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kucharski, F ^a   Kang, I S ^b   Farneti, R ^a   Feudale, L ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; LA NINA; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SURFACE WIND ANOMALIES; WALKER CIRCULATION;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; COOLING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LA NINA; PALEOCLIMATE; SURFACE WIND; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 79551587099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046248     Document Type: Article

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