Low-frequency eddy modulations in the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent: Observations and connection to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Yoshida, Sachiko ^a   Qiu, Bo ^b   Hacker, Peter ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES; WIND STRESS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; DATA SETS; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; FLUX CONVERGENCE; HAWAIIAN LEE COUNTERCURRENT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERANNUAL; LOW FREQUENCY; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE WIND STRESS; TIME-SCALES; VELOCITY CHANGES; VERTICAL SHEAR; WIND STRESS CURL;

HEAT FLUX;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; COUNTERCURRENT; DATA SET; EDDY; EKMAN TRANSPORT; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC ENERGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES; VELOCITY PROFILE; WIND STRESS;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 83655202565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007286     Document Type: Article

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