Impact of westerly wind bursts on the warm pool of the TOGA-COARE domain in an OGCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-70

  Maes, C ^a,b   Delecluse, P ^a   Madec, G ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT BALANCE; THERMAL FLUX; TOGA-COARE; WARM POOL EQUILIBRIUM; WESTERLY WIND;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0031961487     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050208     Document Type: Article

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