Dynamics of the ITCZ-equatorial cold tongue complex and causes of the latitudinal climate asymmetry

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1830-1847

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE;

EQUATORIAL COLD TONGUE COMPLEX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDINAL CLIMATE ASYMMETRY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD;

EID: 0032695717     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1830:DOTIEC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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