Coupled processes and the tropical climatology. Part III: Instabilities of the fully coupled climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1630-1643

  Dijkstra, Henk A ^a   Neelin, J David ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION PHENOMENON; TROPICAL CLIMATOLOGY; WARM POOL COLD TONGUE STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INSTABILITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0032739226     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1630:CPATTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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