Two different features of discharge of equatorial upper ocean heat content related to El Niño events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Hasegawa, Takuya ^a   Horii, Takanori ^b   Hanawa, Kimio ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ENTHALPY; WIND STRESS;

EL NINO EVENTS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; TROPICAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO; HEAT PRODUCTION; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 33644774898     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024832     Document Type: Article

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