Estimating the diapycnal transport contribution to warm Water volume variations in the tropical pacific Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-237

  Brown, Jaclyn N ^a   Fedorov, Alexey V ^b  

^a Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSO SIGNAL; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; EXTENDED VERSIONS; GEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS; HIGH-RESOLUTION OCEAN MODEL; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; KEY ELEMENTS; LATERAL TRANSPORT; MASS BALANCE; MASS BUDGET; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MODEL OUTPUTS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RATE OF CHANGE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTIONS; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WARM WATER; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ERRORS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; WATER CONTENT; WIND STRESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR MASS; EKMAN TRANSPORT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; WARM WATER; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77949334919     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2347.1     Document Type: Article

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