Intraseasonal variability of equatorial Indian Ocean zonal currents

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3036-3055

  Sengupta, Debasis ^a   Senan, Retish ^a,b   Goswami, B N ^a,c   Vialard, Jérôme ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN ZONAL CURRENT; ROSSBY WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; JET; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WIND; THERMOCLINE; WESTERLY; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34547098345     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4166.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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