Local and large-scale climate forcing of Puget Sound oceanographic properties on seasonal to interdecadal timescales

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1746-1758

  Moore, Stephanie K ^a,c   Mantua, Nathan J ^b   Kellogg, Jonathan P ^a   Newton, Jan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 52149086308     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5.1746     Document Type: Article

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