ENSO modulation of the upwelling season off southern-central Chile

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Montecinos, Aldo ^a   Gomez, Fabian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; AUSTRAL SPRING; CLIMATIC CHANGES; COASTAL UPWELLING; MERIDIONAL DIPOLE; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

EID: 84896500435     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041739     Document Type: Article

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