Understanding the responses of sea surface temperature to the two different types of El Niño in the western North Pacific

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 105, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-89

  Yoon, Jinhee ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^b   Kim, Young Ho ^c   Kug, Jong Seong ^c   Min, Hong Sik ^c  

^a Hawaii University   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; DIABATIC FORCING; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; HEAT TRANSPORT; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; NET HEAT FLUX; NORTH PACIFIC; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; EL NINO; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84872602662     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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