Leading modes of the upper-ocean temperature interannual variability along the equatorial atlantic ocean in NCEP GODAS

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4649-4663

  Hu, Zeng Zhen ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^b,c   Zhu, Jieshun ^c  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION PROCESS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NORTH-WESTERN ATLANTIC; STRESS FLUCTUATIONS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STREAM FLOW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; HEAT FLOW; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84880691014     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00629.1     Document Type: Article

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