Excitation of equatorial Kelvin and Yanai waves by tropical cyclones in an ocean general circulation model

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Sriver, R L ^a   Huber, M ^b   Chafik, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CLIMATE SYSTEMS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE OCEAN BUOYS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

HURRICANES; MIXING; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS; WATER WAVES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOCLINE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84892564499     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-4-1-2013     Document Type: Article

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