Decadal change of the connection between summer western North Pacific subtropical high and tropical SST in the early 1990s

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 253-259

  He, Chao ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal change; ENSO; Internal climate variability; WesternNorth Pacific SubtropicalHigh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920018857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl2.550     Document Type: Article

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