An empirical model of tropical ocean dynamics

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1823-1841

  Newman, Matthew ^a,b   Alexander, Michael A ^b   Scott, James D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Coupled models; ENSO; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80355147176     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1034-0     Document Type: Article

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