Ocean-atmosphere characteristics of tropical instability waves simulated in the NCEP climate forecast system reanalysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6409-6425

  Wen, Caihong ^a,b   Xue, Yan ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Intraseasonal variability; Mesoscale processes; Satellite observations; Surface fluxes; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MESOSCALE PROCESS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867686882     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00477.1     Document Type: Article

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