The teleconnection of the tropical Atlantic to Indo-Pacific sea surface temperatures on inter-annual to centennial time scales: A review of recent findings

Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Kucharski, Fred ^a,b   Parvin, Afroja ^a   Rodriguez Fonseca, Belen ^c   Farneti, Riccardo ^a   Martin Rey, Marta ^c   Polo, Irene ^c,d   Mohino, Elsa ^c   Losada, Teresa ^c   Mechoso, Carlos R ^e  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; Atlantic Ni o; ENSO predictability; Pacific decadal variability; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; COOLING; LANTHANUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ENSO PREDICTABILITY; MULTI-DECADAL TIME SCALE; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SURFACE WIND ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTIONS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; EASTERLY WAVE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

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

EID: 84959524158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos7020029     Document Type: Review

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