Role of climate feedback in El Niño-like SST response to global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 7301-7318

  Song, Xiaoliang ^a   Zhang, Guang J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; El Nino; Feedback; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; EL NINO; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 84907572369     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00072.1     Document Type: Article

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