The global climate of December 1992-February 1993. Part II: Large-scale variability across the tropical Western Pacific during TOGA COARE
- NOAA Aeronomy Lab., Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
- NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO (United States)
Recently, scientists from more than a dozen countries carried out the field phase of a project called the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), devoted to describing the ocean-atmosphere system of the western Pacific near-equatorial warm pool. This paper places the weather and climate observed during the four-month Intensive Observation Period (IOP) into context with regard to large-scale, low-frequency fluctuations of the ocean-atmospheric system. The description emphasizes large-scale, low-frequency SST and atmospheric variability across the tropical western Pacific, and therefore completely neglects important elements of the measurement campaign conducted during the IOP, including oceanographic sampling of the vertical structure of the warm pool mixed layer, measurement of fluxes at the air-sea interface, and detailed studies of cloud and precipitation processes.
- OSTI ID:
- 56752
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Climate, Journal Name: Journal of Climate Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 7; ISSN 0894-8755; ISSN JLCLEL
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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