Understanding the impacts of the Indian ocean on ENSO variability in a coupled GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4019-4031

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

MODULATING CONVECTIVE HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE WINDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 8744313591     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<4019:UTIOTI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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