Relative role of dynamic and thermodynamic processes in the development of the Indian Ocean dipole: An OGCM diagnosis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Li, Tim ^a   Zhang, Yongsheng ^a   Lu, Er ^a   Wang, Dailin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; HEAT FLUX; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036946399     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015789     Document Type: Article

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