Eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean T-S variations with El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Ou ^a   Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Lee, Tong ^a   Johnson, Gregory C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER;

CONDUCTIVITY-TEMPERATURE-DEPTH (CTD); TEMPEARTURE-SALINITY (T-S);

GEOPHYSICS;

EL NINO; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2542442453     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019087     Document Type: Article

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