An empirical model for surface wind stress response to SST forcing induced by tropical instability waves (TIWs) in the eastern equatorial Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2021-2046

  Zhang, Rong Hua ^a   Busalacchi, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ATMOSPHERIC PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE MODEL; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MODELING STUDIES; MOVING AVERAGES; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPACE-BASED OBSERVATIONS; SPACE-TIME BLENDING; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE WIND STRESS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WIND DATA; WIND RESPONSE; WIND SIGNALS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BLENDING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS; WIND STRESS;

WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; TROPOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 68249144490     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2712.1     Document Type: Article

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