About the role of Westerly Wind Events in the possible development of an El Niño in 2014

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6476-6483

  Menkes, Christophe E ^a,b   Lengaigne, Matthieu ^b,c   Vialard, Jérôme ^b   Puy, Martin ^b   Marchesiello, Patrick ^d   Cravatte, Sophie ^a,d   Cambon, Gildas ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology   (India)

^d LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

atmosphere; El Ni o; ocean; westerly wind events

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LAKES;

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL; OCEAN; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARM POOLS; WESTERLY WINDS;

NICKEL;

CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84911127012     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061186     Document Type: Article

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