On the energy exchange between tropical ocean basins related to ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6393-6403

  Mayer, Michael ^a   Haimberger, Leopold ^a   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUDGET CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; ENERGY RE DISTRIBUTIONS; INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

TROPICS;

EID: 84906875624     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00123.1     Document Type: Article

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