Fluid dynamics of El Niño variability

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2002, Pages 531-558

  Dijkstra, Henk A ^a   Burgers, Gerrit ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ENSO; Equatorial Tropical Pacific; Interannual climate change; Southern oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; SEAWATER; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPICS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036436675     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.34.090501.144936     Document Type: Article

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