Interannual variability of the upper ocean in the Southeast Pacific stratus cloud region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5072-5088

  Shinoda, Toshiaki ^a   Lin, Jialin ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY MEASUREMENTS; ENSO EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HEAT ADVECTION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL INTEGRATION; NORTHERN CHILE; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN HEAT; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; UPPER OCEAN; WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATOCUMULUS; STRATUS; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 76649136941     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2696.1     Document Type: Article

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