MOC Galapagos Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling
Scope
This map focuses on the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that control cloudiness, hydroclimate, and climate variability in the Galapagos.
Oceanic forcing
- Galapagos Islands
- Oceanography
- Sea surface temperature
- Galapagos SST variability
- Galapagos Cold Pool
- Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent
- Humboldt Current
- Thermocline
- Upwelling
Atmospheric response
- Marine boundary layer
- Temperature inversion
- Stratocumulus
- Garua
- Cloud frequency in the Galapagos
- Hydroclimate
- Precipitation
- Occult precipitation
Variability and diagnostics
- El Nino-Southern Oscillation
- Walker circulation
- ITCZ
- GReNI
- Heavy rainfall in the Galapagos
- Ecoclimatic cloud zonation in the Galapagos
- Galapagos refined analysis validation data