Surface layer heat balance in the eastern equatorial pacific ocean on interannual time scales: Influence of local versus remote wind forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4375-4394

  Zhang, Xuebin ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DEPTH VARIATION; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HEAT ADVECTION; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE ANALYSIS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MODELING STUDIES; OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE LAYERS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; VERTICAL ADVECTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WIND FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ADVECTION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE LAYER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77958107581     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3469.1     Document Type: Article

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