Interannual variability of the Korea Strait Bottom Cold Water and its relationship with the upper water temperatures and atmospheric forcing in the Sea of Japan (East Sea)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Na, Hanna ^a   Kim, Kwang Yul ^a   Chang, Kyung Il ^a   Kim, Kuh ^b   Yun, Jae Yul ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COLD WATERS; CYCLOSTATIONARY; DOUBLE CORE; EAST COAST; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SEA OF JAPAN; SPECTRAL PEAK; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; UPPER LAYER; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

KOREA STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 77957738990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006347     Document Type: Article

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