Genesis of Indian Ocean mixed layer temperature anomalies: A heat budget analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 5375-5403

  Santoso, Agus ^a   Sen Gupta, Alexander ^a   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Heat budgets; Indian Ocean; Mixed layer; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; ANOMALIES; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE MODEL; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MIDLATITUDES; MIXED LAYER; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MIXED LAYER TEMPERATURE; MODEL ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SUMATRA; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; TEMPORAL COVERAGE; THERMAL ANOMALIES; TIME-SCALES; TRADE WINDS; WIND REGIME;

ADVECTION; AIR ENTRAINMENT; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

BUDGET CONTROL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 78649256875     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3072.1     Document Type: Article

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