Longitudinal biases in the Seychelles Dome simulated by 35 ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 831-846

  Nagura, Motoki ^a   Sasaki, Wataru ^a   Tozuka, Tomoki ^b   Luo, Jing Jia ^c   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Yamagata, Toshio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW; WATER WAVES; WAVEFRONTS;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL PREDICTION; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WAVE DYNAMICS;

DOMES;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CIRCULATION MODELING; DOME; EKMAN PUMPING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); JAVA; SEYCHELLES; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84878903700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008352     Document Type: Article

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