The impact of oceanic near-inertial waves on climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2833-2844

  Jochum, Markus ^a   Briegleb, Bruce P ^b   Danabasoglu, Gokhan ^b   Large, William G ^b   Norton, Nancy J ^b   Jayne, Steven R ^c   Alford, Matthew H ^d   Bryan, Frank O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d Applied Physics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; HIGH-FREQUENCY COUPLINGS; MODEL INTEGRATION; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COUPLED CIRCUITS; SEA LEVEL; SHEAR FLOW; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WAVE FORCE;

EID: 84877667094     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00181.1     Document Type: Article

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