Variations in the eastern Indian Ocean warm pool and its relation to the dipole in the tropical Indian Ocean

Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 640-649

  Zhang, Qilong ^a,c   Hou, Yijun ^a,c   Qi, Qinghua ^a,b,c   Bai, Xuezhi ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

dipole; ENSO; the Indian Ocean; warm pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955520489     PISSN: 02544059     EISSN: 19935005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-009-9148-5     Document Type: Article

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