Reduction of the thermocline feedback associated with mean SST bias in ENSO simulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1413-1430

  Xiang, Baoqiang ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b   Ding, Qinghua ^c   Jin, Fei Fei ^a   Fu, Xiouhua ^b   Kim, Hyung Jin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air sea coupling; ENSO; SST bias; Thermocline feedback

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84866370121     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1164-4     Document Type: Article

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