Adjoint sensitivity of the Niño-3 surface temperature to wind forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4480-4493

  Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Cornuelle, Bruce ^a   Roemmich, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Forcing; Regression analysis; Surface temperature; Wind

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; ADJOINTS; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EKMAN PUMPING; ENSO; ENSO EVENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MIXED LAYER HEAT BALANCE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN STATE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; WIND FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PUMPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EKMAN PUMPING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 80052620160     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3917.1     Document Type: Article

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