Tropical warm pool surface heat budgets and temperature: Contrasts between 1997/98 El Niño and 1998/99 La Niña

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1845-1858

  Chou, Shu Hsien ^a   Chou, Ming Dah ^a   Chan, Pui King ^b   Lin, Po Hsiung ^c   Wang, Kung Hwa ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUDS; COOLING; HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVES; SENSORS; SOLAR HEATING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

CLOUDINESS; INDIAN OCEANS; PACIFIC OCEANS; SURFACE HEATING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO; HEAT BUDGET; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 2442582958     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1845:TWPSHB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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