The role of the Indonesian throughflow on ENSO dynamics in a coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 585-601

  Santoso, A ^a   England, W Cai ^b   Phipps, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models; Currents; Dynamics; ENSO

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; BJERKNES FEEDBACK; CORE REGION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; CURRENTS; ENSO; EQUATORIAL UPWELLING; FEEDBACK PROCESS; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDECADAL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SST ANOMALIES; STABILITY INDICES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL DAMPING; TRADE WINDS; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; LAKES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; STREAM FLOW; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; THROUGHFLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79953776114     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3745.1     Document Type: Article

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