Indian Ocean intraseasonal sea surface temperature variability during boreal summer: Madden-Julian Oscillation versus submonthly forcing and processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Duncan, Benét ^a   Han, Weiqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ARABIAN SEA; BARRIER LAYERS; BAY OF BENGAL; CONVECTION PATTERNS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; QUICKSCAT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; THIN SURFACES; WIND SPEED;

WIND STRESS;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 68749104876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004958     Document Type: Article

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