Unusual ocean-atmosphere conditions in the tropical Indian Ocean during 1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3001-3004

  Behera, S K ^a,b,d   Krishnan, R ^a,b,d   Yamagata, T ^a,c,d  

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

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Japan Marine Sci & Technol Ctr   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; HEAT CONVECTION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; TROPICS; WIND; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC CONVECTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ENHANCED CONVECTION; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EVAPORATIVE PROCESS; OCEAN MODEL SIMULATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHEASTERN TROPICAL INDIAN OCEANS; SURFACE WIND ANOMALIES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033208551     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010434     Document Type: Article

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