Time scales of upper ocean temperature variability inferred from the PIRATA data (1997-2000)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Wainer, Ilana ^a   Clauzet, Gabriel ^a   Servain, Jacques ^b   Soares, Jacyra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; SURFACE WATERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY BANDS; ISOTHERMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INSTABILITY WAVES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NORTH-WESTERN ATLANTIC; POWER-SPECTRA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEMI-DIURNAL; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIMESCALE; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 19244374972     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015147     Document Type: Article

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