Spatial patterns of warming off Western Australia during the 2011 Ningaloo Niño: Quantifying impacts of remote and local forcing

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 91, Issue , 2014, Pages 232-246

  Benthuysen, Jessica ^a,b   Feng, Ming ^c   Zhong, Liejun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eastern boundary currents; La Ni a; Leeuwin current; Marine heat wave

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; HEAT FLUX; HYDRODYNAMICS; LA NINA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT; NINGALOO MARINE PARK; PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84909646726     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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