Coupled ocean-atmosphere response to idealized freshwater forcing over the western tropical pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1945-1954

  Wu, Lixin ^a   Sun, Yan ^a   Zhang, Jiaxu ^b   Zhang, Liping ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BJERKNES FEEDBACK; EXTRATROPICAL; FULLY-COUPLED; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL RESPONSE; WESTWARD FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77953699436     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3009.1     Document Type: Article

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