Estimates of surface and subsurface forcing for decadal sea surface temperature variability in the mid-latitude North Pacific

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1289-1300

  Tomita, Tomohiko ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b   Nonaka, Masami ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL MIXING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036822951     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.80.1289     Document Type: Article

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