The curious case of Indian Ocean warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8501-8509

  Roxy, Mathew Koll ^a   Ritika, Kapoor ^a,b   Terray, Pascal ^c,d   Masson, Sébastien ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b FERGUSSON COLLEGE   (India)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology   (India)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; El Nino; ENSO; Indian Ocean; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; EL NINO; ENSO; INDIAN OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84909592256     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00471.1     Document Type: Article

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