Satellite data, Empirical Orthogonal Functions, and the 1997-1998 El Niño off California

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 234-254

  Nezlin, Nikolay P ^a,b   McWilliams, James C ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DATA ACQUISITION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EL NINO; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037299085     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00109-8     Document Type: Article

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