Coupled ocean-atmosphere responses to recent freshwater flux changes over the Kuroshio-Oyashio extension region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1507-1524

  Zhang, Liping ^a   Wu, Lixin ^a   Zhang, Jiaxu ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Currents; Fluxes; Freshwater

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROTROPIC; COMPETING PROCESS; COUPLED MODELS; CURRENTS; CYCLONIC GYRE; EXTRATROPICAL; FRESHWATER; FRESHWATER FLUXES; KUROSHIO; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SPIN-UP; SUBPOLAR GYRES; WARM ADVECTION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; FRESHWATER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79954993729     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3835.1     Document Type: Article

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