Spring Cold Bias of SST and Minimal Wind Mixing in the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 342-346

  Peng Fei, Lin ^a   Hai Long, Liu ^a   Chao, Li ^a   Xue Hong, Zhang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

cold biases; the equatorial Pacific cold tongue; the minimal wind mixing

Indexed keywords

COLD AIR; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON); VERTICAL MIXING; WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84865336004     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2010.11446890     Document Type: Article

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