Relationship between an El Niño event and the interannual variability of significant wave heights in the North Pacific

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-395

  Kako, Shin'ichiro ^a   Kubota, Masahisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; EL NINO; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33846691266     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.440404     Document Type: Article

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