Intraseasonal SST variability and air-sea interaction over the Kuroshio Extension region during boreal summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1619-1634

  Wang, Lu ^a   Li, Tim ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal variability; North Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROCLINIC; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; COOLING PHASE; EVOLUTION CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; INTRASEASONAL SST VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; MIRROR IMAGES; MIXED LAYER; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION DATA; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; UPPER OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUMMER; WARMING;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84863275035     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00109.1     Document Type: Article

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