Simulated Sea Surface Salinity variability in the tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Chao, Yi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE WATERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (OGCM); SALINITY SIMULATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS); DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SALINITY SIMULATIONS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 2442570683     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018146     Document Type: Article

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