The NCEP GODAS ocean analysis of the tropical pacific mixed layer heat budget on seasonal to interannual time scales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 4901-4925

  Huang, Boyin ^a   Xue, Yan ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MIXED LAYER; MODEL-BASED; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NEAR-REAL TIME; OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

ADVECTION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; HEAT FLUX; TROPICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ADVECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFUSION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT BUDGET; LA NINA; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL MIXING; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77958088841     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3373.1     Document Type: Article

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