A note on the role of meridional wind stress anomalies and heat flux in ENSO simulations

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-738

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a,b   Sun, Zhaobo ^a   Zhou, Guangqing ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO simulation; Heat flux; Meridional wind stress; OGCM

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349049575     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-007-0729-y     Document Type: Article

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