Oceanic precondition and evolution of the 2006 Indian Ocean dipole

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Horii, Takanori ^a   Hase, Hideaki ^a   Ueki, Iwao ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; MOORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MOORING BUOYS; OCEAN DIPOLE; SUBSURFACE OCEAN; THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 41849109859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032464     Document Type: Article

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