The annual peak in the SST anomaly spectrum

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2810-2823

  Möller, Jens ^a   Dommenget, Dietmar ^a   Semenov, Vladimir A ^a,b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; EXTRATROPICS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MEAN SEA SURFACE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; SST ANOMALIES; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 40849112840     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2025.1     Document Type: Article

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