Warm pool and cold tongue El Niño events as simulated by the GFDL 2.1 coupled GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1226-1239

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Choi, Jung ^b   An, Soon Il ^b   Jin, Fei Fei ^c   wittenberg, Andrew T ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; DISCHARGE PROCESS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; HEAT DISCHARGE; OCEAN DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SST ANOMALIES; WARM POOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROCESS CONTROL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 77953674089     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3293.1     Document Type: Article

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