Ocean response to the March 1997 Westerly Wind Event

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Lengaigne, Matthieu ^a   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^a   Masson, Sebastien ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Equatorial oceanic waves; Nonlinear physics; Pacific warm pool; Westerly Wind Events

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; KELVIN WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WARM POOL; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FORCING;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 18744428171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc000841     Document Type: Article

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