The roles of intraseasonal Kelvin waves and tropical instability waves in SST variability along the equatorial Pacific in an isopycnal ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3470-3487

  Jiang, ChuanLi ^a,d   Thompson, LuAnne ^a   Kelly, Kathryn A ^b   Cronin, Meghan F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; DOWN-WELLING; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HEAT ADVECTION; IN-PHASE; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; KELVIN WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NET HEAT FLUX; OCEAN MODEL; QUIKSCAT; SST ANOMALIES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE BUDGET; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; WESTERN PACIFIC; ZONAL STRUCTURE;

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; DOWNWELLING; HEAT FLUX; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; KELVIN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 67651204767     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2767.1     Document Type: Article

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