A Further Study of the Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool

@article{Wang2003AFS,
  title={A Further Study of the Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool},
  author={Chunzai Wang and David B. Enfield},
  journal={Journal of Climate},
  year={2003},
  volume={16},
  pages={1476-1493}
}
Abstract Variability of the tropical Western Hemisphere warm pool (WHWP) of water warmer than 28.5°C, which extends seasonally over parts of the eastern North Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the western tropical North Atlantic (TNA), was previously studied by Wang and Enfield using the da Silva data from 1945–93. Using additional datasets of the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis field and the NCEP SST from 1950–99, and the Levitus climatological subsurface temperature, the present paper… 
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