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Weakening of the equatorial Atlantic cold tongue over the past six decades.
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“Significant trends in tropical Atlantic SST, surface salinity, upper-ocean heat content, winds, cloudiness, and rainfall have emerged in the past decade (Tokinaga and Xie, 2011;Durack et al., 2012;Servain et al., 2014).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tokinaga, H., & Xie, S.-P.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tokinaga, Hiroki
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2011-02-06
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 222-226
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2016485052
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 9.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Plankton and Biogeochemistry
- Keywords
- sea surface temperature warming, thermocline feedback, ocean-atmosphere feedback, Atlantic Niño, interannual variability, trade winds, atmospheric convection, eastern equatorial Atlantic
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