Atlantic-induced pan-tropical climate change over the past three decades

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 275-279

  Li, Xichen ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Gille, Sarah T ^a   Yoo, Changhyun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EASTERLY WAVE; GLOBAL WARMING; KELVIN WAVE; OCEAN BASIN; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TRADE WIND; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84959256704     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2840     Document Type: Article

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