The annual cycle of heat content in the Peru current region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 4937-4954

  Takahashi, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL CYCLE; HEAT BUDGET; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 31344456895     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3572.1     Document Type: Article

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