ENSO and greenhouse warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 849-859

  Cai, Wenju ^a,b   Santoso, Agus ^c   Wang, Guojian ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^d   An, Soon Il ^e   Cobb, Kim M ^f   Collins, Mat ^g   Guilyardi, Eric ^h,i   Jin, Fei Fei ^j   Kug, Jong Seong ^k   Lengaigne, Matthieu ^h   Mcphaden, Michael J ^l   Takahashi, Ken ^m   Timmermann, Axel ⁿ   Vecchi, Gabriel ^o   Watanabe, Masahiro ^p   Wu, Lixin ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^e Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^k Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^l NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^m INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^o NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTREME EVENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84939781778     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2743     Document Type: Review

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