Forcing of low-frequency ocean variability in the Northeast Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1255-1276

  Chhak, Kettyah C ^a   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^a   Schneider, Niklas ^b   Cummins, Patrick F ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOWS; ANOMALY PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIRECT LINKS; DOMINANT MODES; GULF OF ALASKA; HINDCAST; HORIZONTAL ADVECTIONS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MIXED LAYERS; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODELS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATIONS; SALINITY - GRADIENTS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATUM; SCALE PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHTS; SEA SURFACE SALINITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; SUBTROPICAL GYRES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; UPPER OCEANS; VERTICAL PROFILES;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; COASTAL ZONES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LANDFORMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; RESTORATION; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; HINDCASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 64049106980     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2639.1     Document Type: Article

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