Mesoscale variability in the northeastern tropical Pacific: Forcing mechanisms and eddy properties

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Liang, Jun Hong ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a   Kurian, Jaison ^a   Colas, François ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Uchiyama, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; STORMS;

ACCURATE MODELING; BOUNDARY FORCING; EDDY FORCING; FORCINGS; GENERATION MECHANISM; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPIN-UP; SYNOPTIC VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EDDY COVARIANCE; KELVIN WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

SESBANIA SERICEA;

EID: 84864047359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008008     Document Type: Article

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