The climate regime shift over the Pacific during 1996/1997

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 435-446

  Hong, Chi Cherng ^a   Wu, Yi Kai ^a   Li, Tim ^b   Chang, Chih Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate regime shift; Mixed layer heat budget; Oceanic temperature advections; Short wave radiation

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GYRE; HEAT BUDGET; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL REGIME;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84906096014     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1867-9     Document Type: Article

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