The madden-julian oscillation detected in aquarius salinity observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5461-5466

  Grunseich, Gary ^a   Subrahmanyam, Bulusu ^b   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

air sea interaction; Aquarius; climate variability; MJO; salinity

Indexed keywords

AQUARIUS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MJO; SALINITY;

DATA PROCESSING; NASA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AQUARIUS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FRESHWATER; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY;

EID: 84886194905     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058173     Document Type: Article

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