An equatorial ocean bottleneck in global climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 343-349

  Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a   Johnson, Gregory C ^b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics; Ocean models; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COMPETING MECHANISMS; COUPLED MODELS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGHER RESOLUTION; NONLINEAR TERMS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; ZONAL MOMENTUM BALANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CURRENT VELOCITY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; UNDERCURRENT; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84856972987     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00059.1     Document Type: Article

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