Sensitivity of near-surface Tropical Instability Waves to submonthly wind forcing in the tropical Atlantic

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-255

  Athié, Gabriela ^a,b   Marin, Frédéric ^a   Treguier, Anne Marie ^b   Bourlès, Bernard ^a,c   Guiavarc'h, Catherine ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^c NONE   (Benin)

Author keywords

Equatorial Atlantic; Intra seasonal variability; Ocean mixed layer; Sensitivity numerical experiments; Tropical instabilities

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC; INTRA-SEASONAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN MIXED-LAYER; SENSITIVITY NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL INSTABILITIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WIND; WIND POWER;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INSTABILITY; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL REGION; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE MODELING; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 70349425675     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.06.016     Document Type: Article

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