Anomalous intraseasonal events in the thermocline ridge region of Southern Tropical Indian Ocean and their regional impacts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jayakumar, A ^a   Gnanaseelan, C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; STREAM FLOW;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; IN-PHASE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN RESPONSE; REGIONAL IMPACTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; STRONG CONVECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN; WALKER CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; COOLING; EVAPORATION; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; THERMOCLINE; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL REGION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84858315025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007357     Document Type: Article

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