Recent climate change in the tropical Western Pacific and Indian ocean regions as detected by outgoing longwave radiation records

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 636-646

  Chu, Pao Shin ^a   Wang, Jian Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC, (TROPICAL WEST);

EID: 0030842808     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0636:RCCITT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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