The impact of horizontal resolution on the tropical heat budget in an Atlantic ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 841-851

  Jochum, Markus ^a   Murtugudde, Raghu ^b   Ferrari, Raffaele ^a   Malanotte Rizzoli, Paola ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COOLING; DIFFUSION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (OGCM); TROPICAL HEAT BUDGET; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES (TIW);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HEAT BUDGET; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 17144417361     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3288.1     Document Type: Article

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