Tropical Pacific mean state and ENSO changes: sensitivity to freshwater flux and remnant ice sheets at 9.5 ka BP

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 661-678

  Luan, Yihua ^a,b,c   Braconnot, Pascale ^b   Yu, Yongqiang ^a   Zheng, Weipeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; ENSO; Freshwater flux; Remnant ice sheet

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MELTING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZONAL WIND;

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

EID: 84961291488     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2467-7     Document Type: Article

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