North-south asymmetry of warm water volume transport related with El Niño variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Ishida, Akio ^a   Kashino, Yuji ^a   Hosoda, Shigeki ^a   Ando, Kentaro ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

BOUNDARY REGIONS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; WARM WATERS;

MILITARY OPERATIONS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PYCNOCLINE; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WARM WATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 57849117991     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034858     Document Type: Article

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