Pacific decadal oscillation and sea level variability in the Bohai, yellow, and East China Seas

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2772-2783

  Han, Guoqi ^a   Huang, Weigen ^b  

^a NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SECOND INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRIC DATUM; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DECADAL VARIABILITIES; EAST CHINA SEAS; EAST CHINAS; HEIGHT VARIATIONS; INTER ANNUALS; INVERSE BAROMETER EFFECTS; KUROSHIO; OCEAN TEMPERATURES; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATIONS; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITIES; SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; SEA-LEVEL CYCLES; SEA-LEVEL RISE; TIDE GAUGES;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SEAWATER; TIDE GAGES;

SEA LEVEL;

ALTIMETRY; ANNUAL VARIATION; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BOHAI SEA; EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 65549132078     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3885.1     Document Type: Article

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