Impacts of Central America gap winds on the SST annual cycle in the eastern Pacific warm pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Sun, Fengpeng ^a   Yu, Jin Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; GAP WINDS; OCEAN MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THERMAL FORCING EFFECT; WARM POOL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL CYCLE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL; WIND;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

SESBANIA SERICEA;

EID: 33646444908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024700     Document Type: Article

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