Pacific-to-Indian Ocean connectivity: Tasman leakage, Indonesian Throughflow, and the role of ENSO

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1365-1382

  Van Sebille, Erik ^a   Sprintall, Janet ^b   Schwarzkopf, Franziska U ^c   Sen Gupta, Alex ^a   Santoso, Agus ^a   England, Matthew H ^a   Biastoch, Arne ^c   Böning, Claus W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ENSO; Indonesian Throughflow; interocean exchanges; Lagrangian modeling; Tasman leakage

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ENSO; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LA-GRANGIAN APPROACHES; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; OCEAN MODEL SIMULATIONS; SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES; UPPER OCEAN CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THROUGHFALL;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MAKASSAR STRAIT; MOLUCCAS; OMBAI STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SUNDA ISLES; TASMAN SEA; TIMOR;

EID: 84900365363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009525     Document Type: Article

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