Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53548#.VMiF7izQrzE Author(s) Cristóbal Guevara-Guillén * , Bernardo Shirasago-Germán , Edgar Leonardo Pérez-Lezama Affiliation(s) Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR-IPN), Colonia Playa Palo de Santa Rita,La Paz, México . ABSTRACT We analyzed the hydrographic variability of La Paz Bay, the largest coastal water body in the Gulf of California, and its relationship to Pacific large-scale phenomena, including the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), Pacific-North America pattern (PNA), and North Pacific pattern (NP). We used several indices related to these phenomena and the hydrographic variability data of La Paz Bay, consisting of the annual sea surface temperature patterns from satellite imagery from 2000 to 2010 and the mixed layer depths measured with in situ data from 1994 to 20...
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