Global upper ocean heat content and climate variability

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1189-1204

  Chu, Peter C ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipole Mode Index (DMI); El Nino; Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP); Indian Ocean Dipole; Monthly varying global (T, S) field; Optimal spectral decomposition (OSD); Pseudo El Nino; Southern Oscillation Index (SOI); Upper ocean heat content

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE MODE INDICES; EL NINO; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; MONTHLY VARYING GLOBAL (T, S) FIELD; OPTIMAL SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITIONS; PSEUDO-EL NINO; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; UPPER OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ENTHALPY; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DATA SET; EL NINO; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; LA NINA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UPPER OCEAN; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 81255141777     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0411-x     Document Type: Article

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