Seasonal variation of space/time statistics of short-term sea surface temperature variability in the Kuroshio region

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 709-720

  Hosoda, Kohtaro ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decorrelation scale; Kuroshio region; Merged SST; Satellite SST

Indexed keywords

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 24344474187     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-005-0078-3     Document Type: Article

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