Decadal changes in South Pacific sea surface temperatures and the relationship to the Pacific decadal oscillation and upper ocean heat content

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2358-2366

  Linsley, Braddock K ^a   Wu, Henry C ^b   Dassié, Emilie P ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^c  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coral Sr Ca; decadal climate change; ocean heat; PDO; SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTHALPY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CORAL SR/CA; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CELL; OCEAN HEAT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PDO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84928705428     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063045     Document Type: Article

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