Impact of the extratropical Pacific on equatorial variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2589-2592

  Lysne, JoAnn ^a   Chang, Ping ^a   Giese, Benjamin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; EQUATORIAL VARIABILITY; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (OGCM);

OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; EXTRATROPICS; OCEANIC GCM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST;

PACIFIC;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031277761     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02751     Document Type: Article

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