Projected sea surface temperature changes in the equatorial pacific relative to the warm pool edge

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-58

  Brown, Jaclyn N ^a   Langlais, Clothilde ^a   Sen Gupta, Alex ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Cold tongue bias; El nino phenomena; Equator; Models; Surface temperature; Tropical oceanography

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES; MODELS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COLD TONGUE BIAS; EL NINO PHENOMENA; EQUATOR; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84924303183     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.10.022     Document Type: Article

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