A coupled decadal prediction of the dynamic state of the kuroshio extension system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1751-1764

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Chen, Shuiming ^a   Schneider, Niklas ^a   Taguchi, Bunmei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 84893928633     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00318.1     Document Type: Article

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