Abrupt termination of Indian Ocean dipole events in response to intraseasonal disturbances

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Rao, Suryachandra A ^a   Yamagata, T ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

3339 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 4231 Oceanography: General: Equatorial oceanography; 4572 Oceanography: Physical: Upper ocean processes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE (IOD); INTRASEASONAL DISTURBANCES; ZONAL WINDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DISTURBANCE; EL NINO; KELVIN WAVE;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11044223160     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020842     Document Type: Article

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