Evidence for interannual and interdecadal climate variability in the South Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2673-2676

  Venegas, Silvia A ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a   Straub, David N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE WATERS; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SEAWATER; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODE; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERDECADAL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ATLANTIC; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY;

SEA SURFACE;

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN INTERACTION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERANNUAL TRENDS; INTERDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0030235950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02373     Document Type: Article

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