The impact of El Niño on South American summer climate during different phases of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 307-319

  da Silva, Gyrlene Aparecida Mendes ^a   Drumond, Anita ^b   Ambrizzi, Tércio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EL NINO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 81155128649     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0427-7     Document Type: Article

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