On the relationship between the North Pacific climate variability and the central Pacific El Niño

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 663-677

  Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^c   Dewitte, Boris ^d  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; NORTH PACIFIC; OCCURRENCE FREQUENCIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84921683153     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00137.1     Document Type: Article

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