Causes of equatorial asymmetry in sea surface temperature over the eastern Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2581-2584

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Seki, Mieko ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; REMOTE SENSING; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WIND EFFECTS;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EQUATORIAL ASYMMETRY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ITCZ; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST;

PACIFIC, (EAST);

AIR-SEA TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; HEMI-SPHERIC ASYMMETRIES; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

EID: 0031277553     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02647     Document Type: Article

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