Multi-year persistence of the 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1042-1047

  Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^a   Mantua, Nathan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; EL NINO; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GYRE; HEAT BUDGET; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84992660453     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3082     Document Type: Article

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