Relative importance of wind and buoyancy forcing for interdecadal regime shifts in the Pacific Ocean

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 417-427

  Wang, Dongxiao ^a   Wang, Jia ^b   Wu, Lixin ^c   Liu, Zhengyu ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy forcing; Pacific Ocean; Regime shift; Relative importance

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; WIND;

SURFACE FORCING;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0041924700     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd9037     Document Type: Article

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