Seasonality of tropical Pacific decadal trends associated with the 21st century global warming hiatus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6782-6798

  Amaya, Dillon J ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Miller, Arthur J ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

global warming hiatus; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Pacific decadal shifts; seasonal variations; tropical ocean variability

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THERMOCLINE; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84949539021     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JC010906     Document Type: Review

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