Cold surge activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate

Frontiers in Earth Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pérez, Edgar P ^a   Magaña, Víctor ^b   Caetano, Ernesto ^b   Kusunoki, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cold surge; El ni o; Gulf of Mexico; Midlatitude tropical interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964824819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22966463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2014.00019     Document Type: Article

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