Seasonality of large-scale atmosphere-ocean interaction over the North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2473-2481

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Norris, Joel R ^a,b   Wallace, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean coupling; Pacific Ocean (North); Sea surface temperature; Seasonality; Temperature anomaly

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FUNCTIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032194638     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2473:SOLSAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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