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Unresolved East Pacific Warm Pool/ITCZ Problems

Though the the coupled ocean-atmosphere system in this region acts as a single dynamical entity, we can conveniently divide the problem of understanding this dynamical system into three components, the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the atmospheric boundary layer in the cross-equatorial flow feeding the ITCZ, and the underlying oceanic mixed layer.



 

D. J. Raymond
1999-12-13