Impacts of Diurnal Cycle of SST on the Intraseasonal Variation of Surface Heat Flux over the Western Pacific Warm Pool

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 793-806

  Li, Wei ^a   Yu, Rucong ^a   Liu, Hailong ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Diurnal cycle of SST; Intraseasonal oscillation; Surface heat flux

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347608335     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403503     Document Type: Article

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