A comparison of acoustic thermometry, satellite altimetry, and other observations of ocean temperature in the North Pacific Ocean
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Peter F. Worcester, Brian D. Dushaw Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105-6698, U.S.A. and The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) Group: A. B. Baggeroer (MIT), T. G. Birdsall (U. Mich.), C. Clark (Cornell U.), J. A. Colosi (WHOI), B. D. Cornuelle (SIO), D. Costa (U. Calif., Santa Cruz), B. D. Dushaw (APL-U. Wash.), M. A. Dzieciuch (SIO), A. M. G. Forbes (CSIRO, Hobart), B. M. Howe (APL-U. Wash.), D. Menememlis (JPL), J. A. Mercer (APL-U. Wash.), K. Metzger (U. Mich.), W. H. Munk (SIO), R. C. Spindel (APL-U. Wash.), P. F. Worcester (SIO), and C. Wunsch (MIT)
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