Mechanisms controlling mixed-layer temperature variability in the eastern tropical Pacific on the intraseasonal timescale

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Halkides, D J ^a,b   Lucas, Lisanne E ^c   Waliser, Duane E ^b   Lee, Tong ^b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^d  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MODEL OUTPUTS; OCEAN STATE; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

TROPICS;

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; MOORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMOCLINE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING; WIND PROFILE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80052439864     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048545     Document Type: Article

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