The state of the California Current, 2001-2002: Will the California Current System keep its cool, or is El Niño looming?

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 43, Issue , 2002, Pages 31-68

  Schwing, Franklin B ^a   Gaxiola Castro, Gilberto ^b   Goméz Valdéz, José ^b   Kosro, P Michael ^c   Mantyla, Arnold W ^d   Smith, Robert L ^c   Bograd, Steven J ^a   García, Joaquin ^b   Huyer, Adriana ^c   Lavaniegos, Bertha E ^b,d   Ohman, Mark D ^d   Sydeman, William J ^e   Wheeler, Patricia A ^c   Collins, Curtis A ^f   Goericke, Ralf ^d   Hyrenbach, K David ^e   Lynn, Ronald J ^a   Peterson, William T ^g   Venrick, Elizabeth ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^e PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^f NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^g NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

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