A tropical ocean recharge mechanism for climate variability. Part I: Equatorial heat content changes induced by the off-equatorial wind

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3585-3598

  Wang, Xiaochun ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN RECHARGE MECHANISM;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT BALANCE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOCLINE; TROPICAL REGION; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0346594329     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3585:ATORMF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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