Coupled pattern analysis of sea surface temperature and TOPEX/Poseidon sea surface height

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 599-611

  Leuliette, Eric W ^a,b   Wahr, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CORRELATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EID: 0032702824     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<0599:CPAOSS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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