Relative contributions of temperature and salinity to seasonal mixed layer density changes and horizontal density gradients

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Johnson, Gregory C ^a   Schmidtko, Sunke ^a,b   Lyman, John M ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PLASMAS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

DENSITY CHANGE; DENSITY GRADIENTS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MINIMUM DENSITY; MIXED LAYER; REGIONAL VARIATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SALINITY CHANGE; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WARM POOLS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84859727718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007651     Document Type: Article

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