Climate impacts of intermittent upper ocean mixing induced by tropical cyclones

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Manucharyan, G E ^a   Brierley, C M ^a   Fedorov, A V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; HURRICANES; MIXING; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS;

ANNUAL MEAN; CLIMATE IMPACTS; GENERAL PATTERNS; GLOBAL CLIMATE IMPACT; HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERMITTENT MIXING; MODELING STUDIES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN MIXING; POLEWARD HEAT TRANSPORT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL DIFFUSION; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; HEAT TRANSFER; MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOCLINE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER OCEAN; WARMING;

EID: 82355164123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007295     Document Type: Article

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