Trend singular value decomposition analysis and its application to the global ocean surface latent heat flux and SST anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2931-2948

  Li, Gen ^a   Ren, Baohua ^a   Zheng, Jianqiu ^a   Yang, Chengyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Fluxes; Heating; Pacific Ocean; Sea surface temperature; Trends; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EIGENANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; TIME SERIES MODELS; TRENDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

DECADAL VARIATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958077595     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3743.1     Document Type: Article

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