Scales of variability in the equatorial Pacific inferred from the Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean buoy array

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2999-3024

  Kessler, William S ^a   Spillane, M C ^b   Mcphaden, Michael J ^a   Harrison, D E ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; BUOY ARRAY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TAO BUOY ARRAY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPPER OCEAN; VARIABILITY; VARIATION;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030434845     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2999:SOVITE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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