Interannual variations of the tropical ocean instability wave and ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3680-3686

  An, Soon Il ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; LANTHANUM; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; FLUX CONVERGENCE; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; INTER-ANNUAL VARIATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; NEGATIVE FEED BACK; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; COOLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEAN WAVE; WARMING;

EID: 51849158767     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1701.1     Document Type: Article

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