Sensitivity of mixed layer heat budgets to wind forcing: A case study for the equatorial Pacific cold tongue

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 198-212

  Cravatte, Sophie ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Equatorial Pacific cold tongue; Mixed layer heat budget; Ocean General Circulation Model; Wind forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC COLD TONGUE; HEAT BUDGET; IN-SITU DATA; INTERANNUAL; MIXED LAYER; MIXED LAYER HEAT BUDGET; MODEL RESULTS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEANIC PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME-SCALES; WIND FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SIMULATORS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND STRESS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

HEAT BUDGET; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 67349183973     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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