Subseasonal SST variability in the tropical eastern north Pacific during boreal summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4149-4167

  Maloney, Eric D ^a,b   Chelton, Dudley B ^b   Esbensen, Steven K ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COHERENT LIGHT; DOMES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LAKES; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BOREAL SUMMER; COSTA RICA; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MICROWAVE IMAGER; PACIFIC WARM POOL; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECTRAL PEAKS; SST ANOMALIES; TIME SCALING; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION; VARIATIONS OF; WARM POOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 48549093736     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1856.1     Document Type: Article

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