Intraseasonal variability of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature during boreal winter: Madden-Julian Oscillation versus submonthly forcing and processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Han, Weiqing ^a   Yuan, Dongliang ^b   Liu, W Timothy ^c   Halkides, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34250764207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003791     Document Type: Article

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