Triggering of El Niño onset through trade wind-induced charging of the equatorial Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1212-1216

  Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Perez, Renellys C ^b   Karspeck, Alicia ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric forcing; ENSO; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CHARGING MECHANISM; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ENTHALPY; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEA LEVEL;

COMMERCE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; VISUALIZATION; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84876938794     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50200     Document Type: Article

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