Pacific subtropical cell response to reduced equatorial dissipation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1894-1912

  Harrison, Matthew J ^a   Hallberg, R W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITIES; EASTERN BOUNDARIES; HEAT TRANSPORTS; INTERMEDIATE WATER MASSES; ISOPYCNAL; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; LOW BACKGROUNDS; MID LATITUDES; OCEAN MODELS; SOUTHERN OCEANS; SUBTROPICAL CELLS; TRUNCATION ERRORS; TURBULENT DIFFUSIVITIES; UP-WELLING; UPPER OCEANS; UPWELLING REGIONS; VARYING BACKGROUNDS; WARMING TRENDS;

TROPICS;

BREAKING WAVE; DIFFUSIVITY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; OCEAN BASIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW; UPWELLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 58049120297     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3708.1     Document Type: Article

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