Sea surface temperature variability off southern Brazil and Uruguay as revealed from historical data since 1854

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C9, 1999, Pages 21021-21032

  Zavialov, Peter O ^a,c   Wainer, Ilana ^b   Absy, João M ^a  

^a University of Rio Grande   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(SOUTH); (SOUTHWEST); ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; URUGUAY;

EID: 0033567631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900096     Document Type: Article

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