On the Ningaloo Niño/Niña

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1463-1482

  Kataoka, Takahito ^a   Tozuka, Tomoki ^a   Behera, Swadhin ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling; Leeuwin Current; Ningaloo Ni o Ni a; Unstable air sea interaction; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COASTAL CIRCULATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPWELLING;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84899638988     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1961-z     Document Type: Article

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