ENSO and non-ENSO induced charging and discharging of the equatorial Pacific

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2309-2327

  Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Perez, Renellys C ^b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charging and discharging processes; ENSO; ENSO precursors; Ocean reanalysis; Tropical extratropical interactions

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MASS TRANSPORT; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84945444584     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2472-x     Document Type: Article

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