The southland front, New Zealand: Variability and ENSO correlations

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1535-1548

  Hopkins, J ^a   Shaw, A G P ^a   Challenor, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ENSO teleconnections; Front detection; Southland Front; Subtropical Front

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL CYCLE; AVHRR; DATA SET; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; OCEANIC FRONT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SHELF BREAK; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 77955273410     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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