The role of air-sea interaction in controlling the optimal pertubations of low-frequency tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere modes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 951-968

  Moore, Andrew M ^a   Vialard, Jérôme ^b,c   Weaver, Anthony T ^d   Anderson, David L T ^b   Kleeman, Richard ^e   Johnson, Jolie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d Centre Europeéen de Rech   (France)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

OCEAN ATMOSPHERE OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PERTURBATION; TROPICAL REGION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141856521     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0951:TROASI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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