REGULATION OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

RELATED LINKS

• Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment (CEPEX)
• CEPEX Executive Summary

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

• Ramanathan, V. and W. Collins, 1991: Thermodynamic Regulation of Ocean Warming by Cirrus Clouds Deduced from Observations of the 1987 El Niño. Nature, 351: 27-32.

• Sherwood, S. C., V. Ramanathan, T. Barnett, M. Tyree and E. Roeckner, 1994: Response of an Atmospheric GCM to Radiative Forcing of Tropical Clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 99(D10): 20,829-20,845.

• Zhang, G. J., V. Ramanathan and M. J. McPhaden, 1995: Convection-Evaporation Feedback in the Equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 8: 3040-3051.

• Tian, B., G. Zhang and V. Ramanathan, 2001: Heat Balance in the Pacific Warm Pool Atmosphere during TOGA COARE and CEPEX. J. Climate, 14(N8): 1881-1893.

• Tian, B., and V. Ramanathan, 2001: Tropical Cloud Radiative Forcing and the Large Scale Atmospheric Energy Transport. J. Climate, 15, 296-305.