A diagnostic study of the Indian Ocean dipole mode in El Niño and non-El Niño years

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2961-2977

  Lee Drbohlav, Hae Kyung ^a   Gualdi, Silvio ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; STATISTICS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MODULAR OCEAN MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WIND FLOW;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO; HEAT BUDGET; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34547112013     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4153.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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