A 21st century shift in the relationship between ENSO SST and warm water volume anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  McPhaden, Michael J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EASTERN PACIFIC; LEADTIME; PAPER DOCUMENTS; SST ANOMALIES; TIME-SCALES; UPPER OCEAN; WARM WATER;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN; WARM WATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84873182597     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051826     Document Type: Article

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