The effect of the Galápagos Islands on ENSO in forced ocean and hybrid coupled models

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2519-2534

  Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a,b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^a   Busalacchi, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HEAT BUDGETS; MIXED LAYERS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; SST ANOMALIES; TIME-SCALE; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WIND STRESS;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 65549103796     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3848.1     Document Type: Article

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