'Reemergence' areas of winter sea surface temperature anomalies in the world's oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Hanawa, Kimio ^a   Sugimoto, Shusaku ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; OCEAN HABITATS;

MIXED LAYER DEPTH (MLD); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

GEOPHYSICS;

ANOMALY; HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 4143056896     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019904     Document Type: Article

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