Ocean response to wind variations, warm water volume, and simple models of ENSO in the low-frequency approximation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3855-3873

  Fedorov, Alexey V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DAMPING RATE; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC; INTEGRAL OPERATORS; KELVIN WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION; OCEAN RESPONSE; PHASE LAGS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POWER SERIES; RECHARGE OSCILLATOR; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHORT TIME SCALE; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; WARM WATER; WIND STRESS CURL; WIND VARIATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; DAMPING; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STREAM FLOW; WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; WATER COLUMN; WIND FIELD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77958098694     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3044.1     Document Type: Article

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