Interannual-to-decadal variations of tropical-subtropical exchange in the Pacific Ocean: Boundary versus interior pycnocline transports

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4022-4042

  Lee, Tong ^a   Fukumori, Ichiro ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MASS EXCHANGE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1642561873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<4022:IVOTEI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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