Termination of Indian Ocean dipole events in a coupled general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3018-3035

  Rao, Suryachandra A ^a   Masson, Sebastien ^a   Luo, Jing Jia ^a   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Yamagata, Toshio ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DOWNWELLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; KELVIN WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34547131275     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4164.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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