Surface fluxes and ocean coupling in the tropical intraseasonal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4368-4386

  Maloney, Eric D ^a   Sobel, Adam H ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS (MJO); SLAB OCEAN MODELS (SOM); WIND-INDUCED SURFACE HEAT EXCHANGE (WISHE);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX;

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

EID: 3042793958     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3212.1     Document Type: Article

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