Exceptionally strong easterly wind burst stalling El Niño of 2014

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 200-2010

  Hua, Shineng ^a   Fedorova, Alexey V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2014 El Ni o; Decadal climate change; Easterly wind bursts; El Ni o predictability; Westerly wind bursts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WARMING; WIND;

EID: 84959186905     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514182113     Document Type: Article

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