A mechanism for observed interannual variabilities over the equatorial Indian ocean

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1689-1700

  Goswami, Prashant ^a,b   Harinath, Nandini ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELLING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST;

INDIAN OCEAN, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0031465694     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1689:AMFOIV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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