Revisiting the latitude fluctuations of the eastern Pacific ITCZ during the central Pacific El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7770-7776

  Xie, Ruihuang ^a   Yang, Yuxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

central Pacific El Ni o; cross equator southerly; eastern Pacific ITCZ; total SST and convergence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

CROSS-EQUATOR SOUTHERLY; EASTERN PACIFIC; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOW-LEVEL WINDS; NEW RESULTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TOTAL SST AND CONVERGENCE;

NICKEL;

CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84923329161     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061857     Document Type: Article

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