Equatorial signatures of the Pacific Meridional Modes: Dependence on mean climate state

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 568-574

  Zhang, Honghai ^a   Deser, Clara ^b   Clement, Amy ^a   Tomas, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

asymmetry; mean climate; Meridional Mode; trade winds; WES feedback

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EXTRATROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MEAN CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL MODE; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; TRADE WINDS;

COMMERCE;

ASYMMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; EVAPORATION; HEATING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SLAB; TRADE WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84893009837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058842     Document Type: Article

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