Use of TOPEX/Poseidon sea level data for Ocean analyses and ENSO prediction: Some early results

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 216-231

  Ji, Ming ^a,b   Reynolds, Richard W ^a   Behringer, David W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TROPICS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0343447674     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0216:UOTPSL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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