Drivers of the projected changes to the Pacific Ocean equatorial circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sen Gupta, A ^a   Ganachaud, A ^b   McGregor, S ^a   Brown, J N ^c   Muir, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LEGOS   (France)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

CIRCULATION CHANGES; COUPLED MODELS; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; EQUATORIAL WINDS; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTERANNUAL; INTERCOMPARISONS; MINDANAO CURRENTS; NEW GUINEA COASTAL UNDERCURRENT; OCEAN RESPONSE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME-SCALES; TRADE WINDS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

WIND;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; SHALLOW WATER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THROUGHFLOW; TIMESCALE; TRADE WIND; WIND STRESS;

MINDANAO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84861135673     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051447     Document Type: Article

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