The influence of different El Niño types on global average temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2093-2099

  Banholzer, Sandra ^a   Donner, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate and Interannual Variability; Climate Variability; Decadal Ocean Variability; ENSO; Sea Surface Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL OCEAN VARIABILITY; ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE FORCING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

EID: 84896690465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059520     Document Type: Article

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