El Niño and its relationship to changing background conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  McPhaden, M J ^a   Lee, T ^b   McClurg, D ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; EASTERN PACIFIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HIGH QUALITY; IN-SITU; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; WIND DATA;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE DATA;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80051747002     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048275     Document Type: Article

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