North Pacific Tropical Water: Its climatology and temporal changes associated with the climate regime shift in the 1970s

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 2-4, 2000, Pages 223-256

  Suga, T ^a   Kato, A ^a   Hanawa, K ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; TROPICAL REGION; WATER MASS;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033752849     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(00)00037-9     Document Type: Review

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