The relationships between tropical Pacific and Atlantic SST and northeast Brazil monthly precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 551-562

  Uvo, Cintia Bertacchi ^a   Repelli, Carlos A ^b   Zebiak, Stephen E ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0031849396     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0551:TRBTPA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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