Decadal variability of the Indian Ocean dipole

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Ashok, Karumuri ^a   Chan, Wing Le ^a   Motoi, Tatsuo ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,c  

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

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

1620 Global change: Climate dynamics (3309); 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4504 Oceanography: Physical: Air sea interactions (0312); 4522 Oceanography: Physical: El Nino; 9340 Information related to geographic region: Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WIND;

GISST DATASETS; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE (IOD); OCEAN DYNAMICS; SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION (SODA);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 14544306947     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021345     Document Type: Article

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