Response of the Equatorial Indian Ocean to an unusual wind event during 1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1613-1616

  Vinayachandran, P N ^a   Saji, N H ^a   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA LEVEL; WIND STRESS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; SURFACE WATERS;

INDIAN OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; JET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL JETS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 0033153598     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900179     Document Type: Article

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