Interannual temperature variability in the tropical Pacific and Lagrangian heat transport pathways

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Holland, Christina L ^a,b   Mitchum, Gary T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER MASS;

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

EID: 19944405825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002466     Document Type: Article

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