Tropical Pacific-driven decadal energy transport variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2037-2051

  Hazeleger, Wilco ^a   Severijns, Camiel ^a   Seager, Richard ^b   Molteni, Franco ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERE ENERGY TRANSPORT; CLIMATE SYSTEM; OCEAN MODEL; SURFACE HEAT FUX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; WATER MASS;

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

EID: 24644525108     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3389.1     Document Type: Article

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