Reconstruction of historical sea surface temperatures using empirical orthogonal functions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1403-1420

  Smith, Thomas M ^a   Reynolds, Richard W ^a   Livezey, Robert E ^a   Stokes, Diane C ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0030485372     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<1403:ROHSST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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