Local partitioning of the overturning circulation in the tropics and the connection to the Hadley and Walker circulations

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1322-1339

  Schwendike, Juliane ^a   Govekar, Pallavi ^b   Reeder, Michael J ^a   Wardle, Richard ^c   Berry, Gareth J ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSO; ERA INTERIMS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; LIMITED DOMAINS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; REANALYSIS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WALKER CIRCULATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; LA NINA; OVERTURN; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84898972938     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020742     Document Type: Article

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