The potential roles of background surface wind in the SST variability associated with intraseasonal oscillations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 7053-7068

  Kanemaru, Kaya ^a   Masunaga, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; HEAT CONVECTION; LATENT HEAT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

'CURRENT; BOREAL WINTERS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SEASONALITY; SURFACE WINDS; WESTERLY WINDS;

HEAT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EASTERLY WAVE; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WESTERLY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84907060525     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: 15200442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-13-00774.1     Document Type: Article

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