The formation of the recent cooling in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and the associated climate impacts: A competition of global warming, IPO, and AMO

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11,272-11,287

  Dong, Lu ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84929438281     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021395     Document Type: Article

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