Tropical Pacific impacts of convective momentum transport in the SNU coupled GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 213-226

  Kim, Daehyun ^a   Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Kang, In Sik ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^b   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 44849107581     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0348-4     Document Type: Article

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