The relationship between the interannual variation of the North Indian Ocean SST induced by surface wind and ENSO during boreal summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1942-1956

  Nagura, Motoki ^a,b   Konda, Masanori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND EFFECTS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; THERMAL FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 24644520275     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3378.1     Document Type: Article

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