A global view of non-Gaussian SST variability

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 639-647

  Sura, Philip ^a,b   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANALYTIC THEORY; MIXED LAYER OCEAN MODEL; NOISE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNIVARIATE LINEAR MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; MIXED LAYER; MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SKEWNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 43149092943     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3761.1     Document Type: Article

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