Changes in the relationship in the SST variability between the tropical Pacific and the North Pacific across the 1998/1999 regime shift

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 7171-7178

  Jo, Hyun Su ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Lee, Sang Ki ^b,c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

1998 1999 regime; SST variability; tropical SST

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

1998/1999 REGIME; CONVECTIVE HEATING; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST VARIABILITY; TROPICAL SST;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONVECTION; CORRELATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOW PRESSURE; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84943363340     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065049     Document Type: Article

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