The relationship between sea surface temperature and thermocline depth in the eastern equatorial Pacific

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 643-655

  Zelle, Hein ^a,b   Appeldoorn, Gerrian ^a   Burges, Gerrit ^a   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MIXING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WIND;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL ADVECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 1842634953     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2523.1     Document Type: Article

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