An Interhemispheric tropical sea level seesaw due to el niño taimasa

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1070-1081

  Widlansky, Matthew J ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^a   Mcgregor, Shayne ^b   Stuecker, Malte F ^a   Cai, Wenju ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PHILIPPINE SEAS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SEA-LEVEL DROPS; SHALLOW REEFS; SHALLOW WATERS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TROPICAL WESTERN PACIFIC;

TROPICS;

SEA LEVEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; EL NINO; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRADE WIND; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PHILIPPINE SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84893195800     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00276.1     Document Type: Article

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