Westerly wind bursts and the diversity of ENSO in CCSM3 and CCSM4

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4722-4727

  Lopez, Hosmay ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; SST; thermocline feedback; westerly wind burst; zonal advective feedback

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; STREAM FLOW; WIND STRESS;

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSO; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; MODEL DISCREPANCIES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATE-DEPENDENT; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84883723906     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50913     Document Type: Article

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