Recent walker circulation strengthening and pacific cooling amplified by atlantic warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 888-892

  McGregor, Shayne ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^b   Stuecker, Malte F ^b   England, Matthew H ^a   Merrifield, Mark ^b   Jin, Fei Fei ^b   Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu ^b  

^a ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RAINFALL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; TRADE WIND; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84923054789     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2330     Document Type: Article

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