Inter-annual variability in the thermal structure of an oceanic time series station off Ecuador (1990-2003) associated with El Niño events

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1789-1805

  Garcés Vargas, José ^a   Schneider, Wolfgang ^a   Del Río, Rodrigo Abarca ^a   Martínez, Rodney ^b,c   Zambrano, Eduardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^c CIIFEN Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Eastern equatorial Pacific; Ecuador; El Ni o; Heat content; La Libertad; Quasi biennial and quasi quadrennial oscillations

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ENTHALPY; OSCILLATIONS; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ECUADOR; EL NIÑO; LA LIBERTAD; QUASI-BIENNIAL AND QUASI-QUADRENNIAL OSCILLATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO; THERMOCLINE; WATER MASS;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23944465883     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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