Decadal-scale variability of upper ocean heat content in the tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Hasegawa, Takuya ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; OCEAN STRUCTURES; TROPICS;

OCEAN HEAT CONTENT (OHC); DECADAL VARIABILITY; EASTERN REGIONS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC; RECHARGE OSCILLATOR; TIME LAG; UPPER OCEAN;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; NICKEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BALANCE; UPPER OCEAN;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042190653     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016843     Document Type: Article

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