The forced and intrinsic low-frequency modes in the North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 876-885

  An, Soon Il ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; NORTH PACIFIC (NP); UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC JET STREAM;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

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

EID: 17144396676     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3298.1     Document Type: Article

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