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Science 4 December 1992:
Vol. 258. no. 5088, pp. 1643 - 1645
DOI: 10.1126/science.258.5088.1643
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Temperature and Size Variabilities of the Western Pacific Warm Pool

Xiao-Hai Yan 1, Chung-Ru Ho 1, Quanan Zheng 1, and Vic Klemas 1

1 Center for Remote Sensing, Graduate College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Variabilities in sea-surface temperature and size of the Western Pacific Warm Pool were tracked with 10 years of satellite multichannel sea-surface temperature observations from 1982 to 1991. The results show that both annual mean sea-surface temperature and the size of the warm pool increased from 1983 to 1987 and fluctuated after 1987. Possible causes of these variations include solar irradiance variabilities, EI Niño—Southern Oscillation events, volcanic activities, and global warming.

Submitted on August 7, 1992
Accepted on October 15, 1992


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