Effects of the wind speed-evaporation-SST feedback on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1391-1403

  Wang, Chunzai ^a,b   Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Yang, Huijun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; OSCILLATIONS; SPEED;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033562254     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1391:EOTWSE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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