An Important Ocean Feature Overlooked in Current El Nino-Southern Oscillation Theories

Abstract

Almost all the theories about the phenomenon of El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) assume a positive-only correlation in the ocean heat equation between the time rate change of sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly and the upper ocean thickness fluctuation. It is very important to justify the validity of this positive-only correlation before developing complicated coupled ocean-atmosphere models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA524268

Entities

People

  • Peter Cheng Chu

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Atmosphere Models
  • Climate Change
  • Equations
  • Information Operations
  • Models
  • Oceans
  • Oscillation
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Thickness

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Systems Analysis and Design