On Pacific subtropical cell variability over the second half of the twentieth century

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 7102-7112

  Farneti, Riccardo ^a   Dwivedi, Suneet ^b   Kucharski, Fred ^a,c   Molteni, Franco ^d   Griffies, Stephen M ^e  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUBTROPICAL CELL; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVERGENCE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84907049544     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00707.1     Document Type: Article

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