Forcing of the Indian ocean dipole on the interannual variations of the tropical Pacific ocean: Roles of the indonesian throughflow

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3593-3608

  Yuan, Dongliang ^a   Wang, Jing ^a,c   Xu, Tengfei ^a,c   Xu, Peng ^a,c   Hui, Zhou ^a   Zhao, And Xia ^a   Luan, Yihua ^b,c   Zheng, Weipeng ^b   Yu, Yongqiang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; General circulation models; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COUPLED EVOLUTION; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME LAG; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; WARM WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SEA LEVEL; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; THROUGHFLOW;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 79960665076     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3649.1     Document Type: Article

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