Assessing the ecological importance of climate regime shifts: An approach from the North Pacific Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-119

  Litzow, Michael A ^a,b   Mueter, Franz J ^c  

^a Blue World Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; CLIMATE REGIME SHIFT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

BIOLOGY; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); TIME SERIES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; GYRE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; AMPLITUDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84891042579     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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