Salinity barrier layer and onset of El Niño in a Pacific coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Maes, Christophe ^a   Picaut, Joël ^a   Belamari, Sophie ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LAKES; NICKEL; SURFACE WATERS;

BARRIER LAYERS; CLIMATE FORECASTS; COUPLED MODELING; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SALINITY BARRIER LAYERS; SALINITY STRATIFICATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038742943     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016029     Document Type: Article

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