Correlative evolutions of ENSO and the seasonal cycle in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1041-1049

  Xiao, Heng ^a   Mechoso, Carlos R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL BANDS; EQUATORIAL WAVES; HEAT CONTENTS; INTERANNUAL; NCEP REANALYSIS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL MEAN; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FORCING; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 69849111800     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2573.1     Document Type: Article

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