Diurnal cycle of rainfall and surface salinity in the western Pacific warm pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3465-3468

  Cronin, Meghan F ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

DIURNAL CYCLE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; SALINITY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033493865     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010504     Document Type: Article

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