Pacific bidecadal climate variability regulated by tidal mixing around the Kuril Islands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a   Tatebe, Hiroaki ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE MODELLING; CLIMATE-VARIABILITY; COASTALLY TRAPPED WAVES; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERIOD VARIABILITY; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TIDAL CYCLING; TIDAL MIXING;

MIXING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIXING; PERIODICITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; TIDAL CYCLE; TRAPPED WAVE;

EURASIA; KURIL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 53749084637     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034406     Document Type: Article

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