Influence of a southern shift of the ITCZ from Quick Scatterometer data on the Pacific North Equatorial Countercurrent

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1292-1304

  Wu, Fanghua ^a,b   Lin, Pengfei ^b   Liu, Hailong ^b  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ITCZ; NECC; ocean model; QuikSCAT; wind stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867089618     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1149-1     Document Type: Article

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