What maintains the SST front north of the Eastern Pacific equatorial cold tongue?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2500-2514

  De Szoeke, Simon P ^a,c   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Miyama, Toru ^b   Richards, Kelvin J ^a   Small, R Justin O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GEOSTROPHIC EQUATORWARD FLOW; MERIDIONAL CONVERGENCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; SURFACE FLUX;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34247611362     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4173.1     Document Type: Article

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