Changes in the interannual variability of the tropical Pacific as a response to an equatorial Atlantic forcing;Cambios en la Variabilidad Interanual del Pacífico Tropical Como Respuesta a un Forzamiento del Atlántico Ecuatorial

Scientia Marina

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 105-116

  Martín Rey, Marta ^a,b   Polo, Irene ^c   Rodríguez Fonseca, Belén ^a,b   Kucharski, Fred ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Atlantic Pacific connection; ENSO; Tropical Atlantic variability

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84865329031     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: 18868134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.03610.19A     Document Type: Article

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