Role of the gulf Stream and Kuroshio-Oyashio systems in large-scale atmosphere-ocean interaction: A review

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3249-3281

  Kwon, Young Oh ^a   Alexander, Michael A ^b   Bond, Nicholas A ^c   Frankignoul, Claude ^d   Nakamura, Hisashi ^e,f   Qiu, Bo ^g   Thompson, LuAnne ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; GULF STREAM; GULF STREAM REGION; INTERANNUAL; KUROSHIO; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOISTURE FLUXES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; OCEANIC FRONTS; REMOTE FORCING; ROSSBY WAVE; SST ANOMALIES; STORM TRACK; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDRAULICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GYRE; HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOISTURE FLUX; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 77955501738     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3343.1     Document Type: Article

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