Processes determining the rapid reestablishment of the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue/ITCZ complex

Journal of Climate

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2250-2265

  Wang, B ^a   Fu, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPORATION;

EQUATORIAL COLD TONGUE (ECT);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COLD WATER; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT FLUX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MIXED LAYER;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035872225     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<0001:PDTRRO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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