Observational evidence of winter spice injection

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2895-2919

  Yeager, Stephen G ^a   Large, William G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MIXING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING; SALINITY GRADIENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DECADAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER COLUMN; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 38549130765     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3629.1     Document Type: Article

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