Oceanic mixed layer feedback and tropical Atlantic variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3629-3632

  Saravanan, R ^a   Chang, Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECIFIC HEAT; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW ANOMALIES; OCEANIC MIXED LAYER FEEDBACK;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTABILITY; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

EID: 0033573490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010468     Document Type: Article

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