Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones intensified by El Ninõ delivery of subsurface ocean heat

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 729, 2014, Pages 82-85

  Jin, F F ^a,c   Boucharel, J ^a   Lin, I I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ARTICLE; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMIDITY; HURRICANE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMOCLINE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOREGULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; HEAT; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CYCLONIC STORMS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84922272046     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13958     Document Type: Article

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