Climatic control of upwelling variability along the Western North-American coast

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Macias, Diego ^a   Landry, Michael R ^b   Gershunov, Alexander ^c   Miller, Arthur J ^c   Franks, Peter J S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LATITUDE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH PACIFIC GYRE OSCILLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION INDEX; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASHORE; SEAWATER UPWELLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND; SEA;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANS AND SEAS; WIND;

EID: 84856004886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030436     Document Type: Article

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