Upper ocean dynamics and its role in maintaining the annual mean western Pacific warm pool in a global GCM

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 711-724

  Qu, Tangdong ^a,c   Meyers, Gary ^b   Stuart Godfrey, J ^b   Hu, Dunxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Heat budget; Ocean dynamics; Warm pool; Western Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GCM; HEAT BUDGET; OCEAN DYNAMICS; UPPER OCEAN; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL WEST);

EID: 0030691756     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(19970615)17:7<711::AID-JOC157>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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