Seasonal and interannual variability of atmospheric convergence zones in the tropical Pacific observed with ERS-1 scatterometer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-263

  Zheng, Quanan ^a   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^b   Tang, Wenqing ^b   Kurz, Dragan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ESSLINGEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); LATITUDE TIME SECTIONS; SCATTEROMETER;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FRONTS; CONVERGENCE ZONE; CONVERGENCE ZONES; ERS-1; FRONT; SCATTEROMETER; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE ZONES; EASTERN PACIFIC; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; SCATTEROMETER WINDS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; WESTERN PACIFIC;

EID: 0031079936     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00033     Document Type: Article

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