Pacific sea surface temperature and the winter of 2014

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1894-1902

  Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; North Pacific Mode; Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ENSEMBLE OF MODELS; LOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STANDARD DEVIATION; WEATHER PATTERNS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84927797697     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063083     Document Type: Article

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