Western tropical Pacific multidecadal variability forced by the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Sun, Cheng ^a   Kucharski, Fred ^b,c   Li, Jianping ^a,d   Jin, Fei Fei ^e   Kang, In Sik ^c,f   Ding, Ruiqiang ^g  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d QINGDAO NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^g INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERLY;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HYPOBARISM; OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TROPICS; WARMING;

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

EID: 85022211136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15998     Document Type: Article

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