A Pacific Interdecadal Climate Oscillation with Impacts on Salmon Production

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1069-1079

  Mantua, Nathan J ^a   Hare, Steven R ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Francis, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE IMPACT; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; IMPACT; INTERDECADAL SCALE; OSCILLATIONS; SALMON PRODUCTION;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0031465646     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1069:APICOW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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