Observed correlation of surface salinity, temperature and barrier layer at the eastern edge of the western Pacific warm pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Maes, Christophe ^a   Ando, Kentaro ^b   Delcroix, Thierry ^a   Kessler, William S ^c   McPhaden, Michael J ^c   Roemmich, Dean ^d  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; RAIN; SEAWATER; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DEEP CONVECTION; CLIAMTE VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SALT-STRATIFIED BARRIER LAYERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS); SURFACE SALINITY; WARM POOL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33646456811     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024772     Document Type: Article

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