Response of tropical clouds to the interannual variation of sea surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 616-634

  Fu, Rong ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^b   Dickinson, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE DATA (1983-1990); CLOUD FEEDBACK; CLOUDS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; TROPICAL CLOUD FIELD; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029730933     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<0616:ROTCTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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