Multiple causes of interannual sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-47

  Richter, Ingo ^a   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^a   Taguchi, Bunmei ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^a   Yamagata, Toshio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 84871549733     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1660     Document Type: Article

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