Interannual sea surface salinity variations observed in the tropical North Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2194-2199

  Li, Yuanlong ^a,b   Wang, Fan ^b   Han, Weiqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO; mixed layer; sea surface salinity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FRESHWATER; ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MERIDIONAL EKMAN ADVECTION; MIXED LAYER; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; WATER;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84879911655     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50429     Document Type: Article

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