Reflected and locally wind-forced interannual equatorial Kelvin waves in the western Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^a   Cravatte, Sophie ^b   Menkes, Christophe ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

Delayed action oscillator; ENSO; Equatorial waves; Western boundary reflection

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 1642562803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001760     Document Type: Article

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