Equatorial pacific easterly wind surges and the onset of La Niña events

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 776-792

  Chiodi, Andrew M ^a   Harrison, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS; WAVEGUIDES; WIND STRESS;

BUOY MEASUREMENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEANIC WAVEGUIDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WAVEGUIDE SURFACES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EASTERLY WAVE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WESTERLY; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

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

EID: 84921647236     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00227.1     Document Type: Article

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