Independence of SST skewness from thermocline feedback in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Hong, Chi Cherng ^a   Li, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FEEDBACK PROCESS; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST ANOMALIES; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; WIND STRESS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AUTUMN; HEAT BUDGET; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WIND STRESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77953591812     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043380     Document Type: Article

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