Influence of the extratropical ocean circulation on the intertropical convergence zone in an idealized coupled general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4612-4629

  Fučkar, Neven S ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Farneti, Riccardo ^c   Maroon, Elizabeth A ^d   Frierson, Dargan M W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMPOLAR CHANNELS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; DEEP-WATER PRODUCTION; EXTRATROPICAL OCEAN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; HEAT TRANSFER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HADLEY CELL; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84880647122     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00294.1     Document Type: Article

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