Free and forced variability of the tropical Atlantic ocean: Role of the wind-evaporation-sea surface temperature feedback

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5958-5977

  Mahajan, Salil ^a   Saravanan, R ^b   Chang, Ping ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; ENSO; Evaporation; Feedback; Sea surface temperature; Tropics; Wind effects

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; ENSO; ENSO EVENTS; FORCED VARIABILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LOW FREQUENCY; MODE RESPONSE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NEAR-SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMILAR ANALYSIS; SLAB OCEAN MODELS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 78650149593     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3304.1     Document Type: Article

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