Maintenance of decadal SST anomalies in the midlatitude North Pacific

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 477-491

  Mochizuki, Takashi ^a   Kida, Hideji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0242583950     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.477     Document Type: Article

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