The heat balance of the Western Hemisphere warm pool

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2662-2681

  Enfield, David B ^a   Lee, Sang Ki ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

HEAT BALANCE; NET SURFACE FLUX; WARM POOL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; THERMODYNAMICS; WARM POOL;

EID: 26844492032     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3427.1     Document Type: Article

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