The Indian monsoon circulation response to El Niño diabatic heating

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7487-7508

  Jang, Youkyoung ^a   Straus, David M ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Diabatic heating; El Nino; ENSO; Numerical analysis modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DIABATIC HEATING; EL NINO; ENSO;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEATING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIABATIC PROCESS; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84870039716     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00637.1     Document Type: Article

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