On the dynamical mechanisms explaining the western Pacific subsurface temperature buildup leading to ENSO events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2961-2967

  Ballester, Joan ^a,b   Bordoni, Simona ^a   Petrova, Desislava ^b   Rodõ, Xavier ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IC3 Institut Català de Ciències del Clima   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

assimilation data; Ekman transport; El Ni o; ENSO; La Ni a; Sverdrup transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL;

ASSIMILATION DATA; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; DYNAMICAL TRANSITION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ENSO; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DOWNWELLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THERMOCLINE; UNDERCURRENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84929516290     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063701     Document Type: Article

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