An extratropical air-sea interaction over the North Pacific in association with a preceding el Niño episode in early summer

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3771-3785

  Wang, Yafei ^a   Lupo, Anthony R ^b  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; BAROTROPIC PROCESS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EXTRATROPICAL; GEOPOTENTIALS; MIDLATITUDES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEANIC TEMPERATURE; OKHOTSK; OKHOTSK SEA; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STATIONARY WAVES; WAVE FLUX; WAVE TRAIN;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 77649335725     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2949.1     Document Type: Article

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