Response of the Kuroshio Extension to Rossby waves associated with the 1970s climate regime shift in a high-resolution ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2979-2995

  Taguchi, Bunmei ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Mitsudera, Humio ^b   Kubokawa, Atsushi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; CLIMATE REGIME SHIFT; HIGH-RESOLUTION OCEAN MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVES; WAVE DYNAMICS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 25444503268     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3449.1     Document Type: Article

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