Impact of interactive westerly wind bursts on CCSM3

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-51

  Lopez, Hosmay ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b   Gebbie, Geoffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled general circulation models; ENSO; Kelvin waves; Stochastic processes; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DETERMINISTIC COMPONENT; ENSO; ENSO EVENTS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; KELVIN WAVES; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; PARAMETERIZED; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATE VARIABLES; STATE-DEPENDENT; STATE-DEPENDENT NOISE; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS; WIND EVENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PARAMETERIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

WIND STRESS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; WESTERLY; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84872674548     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2012.11.001     Document Type: Review

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