Anthropogenic speed-up of oceanic planetary waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Fyfe, John C ^a   Saenko, Oleg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; OCEANIC PLANETARY WAVES; PLANETARY WAVE PROPAGATION SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WATER WAVES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; OCEAN WAVE; PLANETARY WAVE; WARMING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34447576996     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029859     Document Type: Article

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