Oceanic origin of a recent La Niña-like trend in the tropical Pacific

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1109-1117

  Zhang, Liping ^a   Wu, Lixin ^a   Yu, Lisan ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrological cycle; subtropical tropical cell; tropical Pacific; warming trend

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051877513     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-0129-6     Document Type: Article

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