The Rossby wave as a key mechanism of Indian Ocean climate variability

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2123-2136

  Jury, Mark R ^a   Huang, Bohua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION SYSTEMS; INDIAN OCEAN; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMOCLINE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMOCLINE; WIND STRESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 8844241567     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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