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Monitoring of 1997 El Niño from TOPEX/Poseidon

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In early 1997, one El Niño event occurred. The change of the sea surface height during the event was monitored with TOPEX altimetric data, and this is helpful to the study on the formation and development mechanism of an El Niño event and its impact on the global climatic change.

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  1. Center for Astrogeodyrunnic Research, Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200030, Shanghai, China

    Xiaojun Dong, Cheng Huang, Dawei Zheng & Hongqiu Wu

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Dong, X., Huang, C., Zheng, D. et al. Monitoring of 1997 El Niño from TOPEX/Poseidon. Chin.Sci.Bull. 44, 320–322 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02885482

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