Annual adjustment of the thermocline in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 596-616

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Renguang ^a   Lukas, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER WAVE EFFECTS; WATER WAVES; WIND; WIND STRESS;

AMPLITUDE PHASE CHARACTERISTICS; ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT; BIMODAL ANNUAL VARIATION; EKMAN PUMPING; EQUATORIAL WAVE PROPAGATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ROSSBY WAVES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EKMAN PUMPING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; THERMOCLINE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FORCING;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034144231     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0596:AAOTTI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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