A new strategy for assimilating SST data for ENSO predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Tang, Youmin ^a   Kleeman, Richard ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING; NICKEL; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

LEAD TIME; OCEAN MODEL; PROXY DATA; SEA LEVEL HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST ANOMALIES; SUBSURFACE DATA; THERMAL DATA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036768086     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014860     Document Type: Article

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