Investigation of tropical Pacific upper-ocean variability using cyclostationary EOFs of assimilated data

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-505

  Kim, Kwang Y ^a   Kim, Yoo Yin ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical response of upper ocean; ENSO; Kelvin waves; Surface subsurface connection; Upper ocean variability

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

DYNAMICAL RESPONSE OF UPPER OCEAN; E1 NĨNO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); KELVIN WAVES; SURFACE-SUBSURFACE CONNECTION; UPPER-OCEAN VARIABILITY;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; KELVIN WAVE; UPPER OCEAN;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

EID: 10044284432     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-004-0094-7     Document Type: Article

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