Thermocline and zonal advective feedbacks within the equatorial ocean recharge oscillator model for ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2989-2992

  Jin, Fei Fei ^a   An, Soon Il ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS;

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MODELING;

DYNAMICAL COUPLING; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; MEAN SEA SURFACES; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; RECHARGE OSCILLATOR; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL ADVECTION;

EID: 0033209554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002297     Document Type: Article

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