Identifying the roles of the ocean and atmosphere in creating a rapid equatorial response to a Southern Ocean anomaly

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Blaker, A T ^a   Sinha, B ^a   Ivchenko, V O ^a   Wells, N C ^a   Zalesny, V B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SALINE WATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BAROCLINIC OCEANIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EQUATORIAL OCEAN RESPONSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EQUATORIAL WAVE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN WAVE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 33646442068     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025474     Document Type: Article

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