Relationships of inter-American rainfall to tropical Atlantic and Pacific SST variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3305-3308

  Enfield, David B ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS (ENSO); INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) VARIABILITY;

RAIN; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL REGIONS; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC; PACIFIC;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LARGE SCALE DATA SETS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTH ATLANTIC; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

EID: 0030300939     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03231     Document Type: Article

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