Extreme swings of the South Pacific Convergence Zone and the different types of El Niño events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4695-4703

  Borlace, Simon ^a,b   Santoso, Agus ^a   Cai, Wenju ^b   Collins, Matt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

El Ni o; extreme events; South Pacific Convergence Zone; tropical rainfall variability

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSES;

CONVECTIVE ZONE; EASTERN PACIFIC; EXTREME EVENTS; GREENHOUSE WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84903871830     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060551     Document Type: Article

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