Response of the upper tropospheric humidity and moisture transport to changes of tropical convection. A comparison between observations and a GCM over an ENSO cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2371-2374

  Fu, Rong ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Newkirk, Brett ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE;

EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC RELATIVE HUMIDITIES;

TROPICS;

EID: 0008353711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02505     Document Type: Article

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