A GCM study of the teleconnections between the continental climate of Africa and global sea surface temperature anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2480-2497

  Semazzi, Fredrick H M ^a   Burns, Beverly ^a   Lin, Neng Huei ^b   Schemm, Jae Kyung ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; GCM; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTIONS;

AFRICA;

EID: 0030432896     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2480:AGSOTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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