Salinity signature of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1337-1340

  Overland, James E ^a   Salo, Sigrid ^b   Adams, Jennifer Miletta ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WIND;

GULF OF ALASKA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SALINITY CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EARTH SCIENCES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

DENSITY; OSCILLATION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033134216     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900241     Document Type: Article

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