Seasonal effects of Indian Ocean freshwater forcing in a regional coupled model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6577-6596

  Seo, Hyodae ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Murtugudde, Raghu ^b   Jochum, Markus ^c   Miller, Arthur J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BARRIER LAYERS; BAY OF BENGAL; BOREAL WINTERS; COASTAL OCEAN; COUPLED MODELS; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; FULLY-COUPLED; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MIXED LAYER; MONSOON RAINFALL; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SEASONAL EFFECTS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE LAYER; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; FRESHWATER; HEAT FLUX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATIFICATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77649330530     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2990.1     Document Type: Article

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