Conceptual model about the interaction between El Niño/Southern Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in far west equatorial Pacific

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 889-896

  Liu, Qinyu ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a,b   Pan, Aijun ^a,c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources of Fujian Province   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled system; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Interaction; Kelvin wave; Quasi Biennial Oscillation; Walker Circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; KELVIN WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 33750978693     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-006-0889-0     Document Type: Article

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