TAO Surface Heat, Moisture, and Momentum Fluxes
Publication List

2001
Collins, W.D., 2001: Effects of enhanced shortwave absorption on coupled simulations of the tropical climate system. J. Climate, 14, 1147-1165.

Wang, W. and M. J. McPhaden, 2001: Surface layer heat balance in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the 1997-98 El Niņo and the 1998-99 La Niņa. J. Clim., in press.

Wang, W. and M.J. McPhaden, 2001: What is the mean seasonal cycle of surface heat flux in the equatorial Pacific? J. Geophys. Res., 106, 837-857.

Zhang, C., 2001: Intraseasonal perturbations in sea surface temperatures of the equatorial eastern Pacific and their association with the Madden-Julian oscillation. J. Climate, 14, 1309-1322.

2000
Cronin, M.F., M.J. McPhaden, and R.H. Weisberg, 2000: Wind forced reversing jets in the western equatorial Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 30, 657-676.

Murray, M.J., M.R. Allen, C.J. Merchant, A.R. Harris, and C.J. Donlon, 2000: Direct observations of Skin-Bulk SST variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1171-1174.

Yu, Z. and D.W. Moore, 2000: Validating the NSCAT winds in the vicinity of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone. Geophys. Res. Letts., 27, 2121-2124.

Zhang C. and M.J. McPhaden, 2000: Intraseasonal surface cooling in the equatorial western Pacific. J. Climate, 13, 2261-2276.

Zhang, S., A.J. Plueddemann, S.P. Anderson, and R.A. Weller, 2000: Surface fluxes and their influence on sea surface temperature in the western equatorial Pacific during the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6341-6358.

1999
Cronin, M.F., and M.J. McPhaden, 1999: Diurnal cycle of rainfall and surface salinity in the western Pacific warm pool. Geophys. Res. Let., 26, 3465-3468

Zeng, X., M. Zhao, R.E. Dickinson, and Y. He, 1999: A multi-year hourly sea surface skin temperature dataset derived from the TOGA-TAO bulk temperature and wind speed over the Tropical Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2503-2514.

1998
Cronin, M.F. and M.J. McPhaden, 1998: Upper ocean salinity balance in the western equatorial Pacific. J. Geophys. Res, 103, 27,567-27587.

Lee, H.-H., P.-S. Chu, C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 1998: On the annual cycle of latent heat fluxes over the equatorial Pacific using TAO buoy Observations. J. Meteorol., Soc. of Japan, 76, 909-923.

Zeng, X. and R.E. Dickinson, 1998: Impact of diurnally-varying skin temperature on surface fluxes over the tropical Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1411-1414.

Zeng, X, M. Zhao, and R.E. Dickinson, 1998: Intercomparison of bulk aerodynamic algorithms for the computation of sea surface fluxes using TOGA COARE and TAO data. J. Climate, 11, 2628-2644.

1997
Collins, W.D., J. Wang, J.T. Kiehl, and G.J. Zhang, 1997: Comparison of Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere fluxes with the NCAR community climate model CCM3. J. Climate, 10, 3047-3058.

Cronin, M.F. and M.J. McPhaden, 1997: The upper ocean heat balance in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool during September-December 1992. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 8533-8553.

He, Y., X-H. Yan, and W.T. Liu, 1997: Surface heat fluxes in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean estimated by bulk parameterization and by an inverse mixed layer model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 2477-2487.

Short, D.A., P.A. Kucera, B.S. Ferrier, J.C. Gerlach, S.A. Rutledge, and O.W. Thiele, 1997: Shipboard radar rainfall patterns within the TOGA COARE IFA. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 78(12), 2817-2836.

Zhang, C., 1997: Intraseasonal variability of the upper-ocean thermal structure observed at 0 and 165E. J. Climate, 10, 3077-3092.

1996
Esbensen, S.K. and M.J. McPhaden, 1996: Enhancement of tropical ocean evaporation and sensible heat flux by atmospheric mesoscale systems. J. Climate, 9, 2307-2325.

Lin, X. and R.H. Johnson, 1996: Heating, moistening, and rainfall over the western Pacific warm pool during TOGA COARE. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3367-3383.

Weller, R.A. and S.P. Anderson, 1996: Surface meteorology and air-sea fluxes in the western equatorial Pacific warm pool during the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. J. Climate, 9, 1959-1990.

Zhang, C., 1996: Atmospheric intraseasonal variability at the surface in the tropical western Pacific Ocean. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 739-758.

Zhang, G.J. and R.L. Grossman, 1966: Surface evaporation during the Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment: A climate scale perspective. J. Climate, 9, 2522-2537.

1995
Bond, N.A. and M.J. McPhaden, 1995: An indirect estimate of the diurnal cycle in upper ocean turbulent heat fluxes at the equator, 140°W. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 18,369-18,378.

Ramanathan, V., B. Subasilar, G.J. Zhang, and others, 1995: Warm pool heat budget and shortwave cloud forcing: A missing physics? Science, 267, 499-503.

Zhang, G.J., 1995: On the use of monthly mean data to compute surface turbulent fluxes in the tropical Pacific. J. Climate, 8, 3084-3090.

Zhang, G.J. and M.J. McPhaden, 1995: On the relationship between sea surface temperature and latent heat flux in the equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 8, 589-605.

Zhang, G.J., V. Ramanathan, and M.J. McPhaden, 1995: Convection-evaporation feedback in the equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 8, 3040-3051.

1994
Janowiak, J.E., P.A. Arkin, and M. Morrissey, 1994: An examination of the diurnal cycle in oceanic tropical rainfall using satellite and in situ data. Mon. Weather Rev., 122, 2298-2311.

Morrissey, M., W.F. Krajewski, and M.J. McPhaden, 1994: Estimating rainfall in the tropics using the fractional time raining. J. Appl. Met., 33, 387-393.

1991
Hayes, S.P., P. Chang, and M.J. McPhaden, 1991: Variability of the sea surface temperature in the eastern equatorial Pacific during 1986-88. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,553-10,566.