The annual cycle of SST in the eastern tropical Pacific, diagnosed in an ocean GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 777-799

  Kessler, William S ^a   Rothstein, Lewis M ^b   Chen, Dake ^c  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; OCEAN GCM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

(EAST); PACIFIC;

EID: 0031671665     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0777:TACOSI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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