On the cause of eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean T-S variations associated with El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Wang, Ou ^a   Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Lee, Tong ^a   Cheng, Benny ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

FRESHER WATER; SALTIER WATER; SIMULATED PASSIVE TRACERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); WORLD;

EID: 7044239696     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020188     Document Type: Article

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