Control of decadal and bidecadal climate variability in the tropical pacific by the off-equatorial South Pacific Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6524-6534

  Tatebe, Hiroaki ^a   Imada, Yukiko ^b   Mori, Masato ^b   Kimoto, Masahide ^b   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PARTIAL BLOCKING; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL MODE WATERS; WIND STRESS CURL;

CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICS; WIND STRESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACER; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84883187053     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00137.1     Document Type: Article

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