Relationship between tropical upper tropospheric moisture and eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperature at seasonal and interannual time scales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-28

  Newell, Reginald E ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a   Read, William G ^b   Waters, Joe W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; SEA LEVEL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; ALTITUDE CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HUMIDITY CONTROL; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE;

TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA FLUX; MOISTURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOUR;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL EAST);

EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH SATELLITES;

EID: 0030977530     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03776     Document Type: Article

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