What hindered the El Niño pattern in 2014?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6762-6770

  Min, Qingye ^a   Su, Jingzhi ^a   Zhang, Renhe ^a   Rong, Xinyao ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation; Pacific Meridional Mode

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATERS; WIND;

EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; NEGATIVE PHASE; O-CONDITIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; PACIFIC MERIDIONAL MODE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TRADE WINDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84941730952     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064899     Document Type: Article

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