The boreal-summer intraseasonal oscillations simulated in a hybrid coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2628-2649

  Fu, Xiouhua ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEANS; BOREAL-SUMMER INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION (BSISO); COUPLED SYSTEMS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BOREAL; MODELING; SUMMER;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 10244234122     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2811.1     Document Type: Review

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