Role of the western tropical Pacific in the North Pacific regime shift in the winter of 1998/1999

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 6161-6170

  Jo, Hyun Su ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

NEC bifurcation region; regime shift; western tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; COOLING; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; LA NINA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCLINE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84927621793     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009527     Document Type: Article

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