An investigation of the initial development of the double-ITCZ warm SST biases in the CCSM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-155

  Liu, Hailong ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^a   Lin, Wuyin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertropical convergence zone; Latent heating cooling; Mixed layer; Pacific ocean; Sea surface temperature; Shortwave radiation; Transport

Indexed keywords

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; MIXED LAYER; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; TRANSPORT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEAN CURRENTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

SUN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84863011542     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4001.1     Document Type: Article

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