Westward propagation of barrier layer formation in the 2006-07 Rossby wave event over the tropical southwest Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Chowdary, J S ^a,b   Gnanaseelan, C ^a   Xie, S P ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; BARRIER LAYERS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; MIXED LAYER; ROSSBY WAVE; SUBSURFACE WARMING; THICK BARRIER LAYERS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STREAM FLOW; TROPICS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MIXED LAYER; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMOCLINE; WARMING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 66149161982     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036642     Document Type: Article

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