Interannual variability of the South China Sea in a data assimilation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wu, Chau Ron ^a   Chang, C W June ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

DATA ASSIMILATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MODEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; WORLD;

EID: 27544509558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023798     Document Type: Article

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