A change in the relationship between tropical central Pacific SST variability and the extratropical atmosphere around 1990

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a   Lu, Mong Ming ^b   Kim, Seon Tae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hadley circulation; NPO; two types of ENSO; Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HADLEY CIRCULATION; NPO; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TWO TYPES OF ENSO; WALKER CIRCULATION;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84866310423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034025     Document Type: Review

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