La Niña forces unprecedented Leeuwin Current warming in 2011

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Feng, Ming ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^b   Xie, Shang Ping ^c,d   Hafner, Jan ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84874326799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01277     Document Type: Article

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