Coastal upwelling along the north coast of Papua New Guinea and SST cooling over the pacific warm pool: A case study for the 2002/03 El Niño event

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-833

  Hasegawa, Takuya ^a   Ando, Kentaro ^a   Mizuno, Keisuke ^a   Lukas, Roger ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling; El Ni o onset; Pacific warm pool; SST cooling

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL CURRENT; COOLING; DATA SET; EL NINO; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRITON; UPWELLING; WARM POOL; WESTERLY;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 70949100158     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-009-0068-y     Document Type: Article

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