Remote influences on freshwater flux variability in the Atlantic warm pool region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Liping ^a,b,c   Wang, Chunzai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; TROPICS;

EASTERN PACIFIC; FRESHWATER FLUXES; LOCAL EFFECTS; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SST ANOMALIES; WARM POOLS;

WATER;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84867528878     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053530     Document Type: Article

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