Effects of the diurnal cycle in solar radiation on the tropical Indian Ocean mixed layer variability during wintertime Madden-Julian Oscillations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4945-4964

  Li, Yuanlong ^a   Han, Weiqing ^a   Shinoda, Toshiaki ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^c   Lien, Ren Chieh ^d   Moum, James N ^e   Wang, Jih Wang ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CINDY DYNAMO; diurnal cycle; Madden Julian Oscillation; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

CINDY/DYNAMO; DIURNAL CYCLE; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; INTRASEASONAL SST VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIURNAL VARIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; UPPER OCEAN;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84890283577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20395     Document Type: Article

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