Importance of mean state in simulating different types of El Niño revealed by SNU coupled GCMs

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 130-141

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,b   Lim, Mijung ^c   Kug, Jong Seong ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; EASTERN PACIFIC; GENERAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; WESTERN PACIFIC;

LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW;

WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; THERMOCLINE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84882830067     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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