Underwater gliders reveal rapid arrival of El Niño effects off California's coast

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Todd, Robert E ^a   Rudnick, Daniel L ^a   Davis, Russ E ^a   Ohman, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN HABITATS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; IN-PHASE; MIDLATITUDES; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SUBSURFACE EFFECTS; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; UNDERWATER GLIDERS; UPPER OCEAN WATER; WATER MASS;

GLIDERS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; EL NINO; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; UPPER OCEAN; WATER MASS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79751514601     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046376     Document Type: Article

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