Harmonic analysis of climatological sea surface salinity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Boyer, Tim P ^a   Levitus, Sydney ^a  

^a National Oceanographic Data Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

EID: 19244384258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000829     Document Type: Article

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