Impact of salinity on the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole event in a numerical experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Masson, Sébastien ^a   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^b   Menkes, Christophe ^b   Delecluse, Pascale ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,c  

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

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

1997 Indian Ocean Dipole; Numerical experiments; Salinity stratification

Indexed keywords

MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 2342611973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc001807     Document Type: Article

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