Pacific thermocline bridge revisited

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1329-1332

  Schneider, Niklas ^a,b   Venzke, Stephan ^b   Miller, Arthur J ^c   Pierce, David W ^a   Barnett, Tim P ^c   Deser, Clara ^a   Latif, Mojib ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

COUPLED MODELING; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

TROPICS; CLIMATOLOGY;

HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC BRIDGE; THERMOCLINE;

COUPLING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033134168     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900222     Document Type: Article

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