Freshening of the upper thermocline in the North Pacific subtropical gyre associated with decadal changes rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3485-3488

  Lukas, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OSCILLATIONS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; DROUGHT; STREAM FLOW;

FRESHENING;

GEOPHYSICS; CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GYRE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RAINFALL; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DENSITY COMPENSATION; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SURFACE SALINITIES; THERMAL ANOMALIES;

EID: 0035883279     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013116     Document Type: Article

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