Submonthly convective variability over South America and the South Atlantic convergence zone

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1877-1891

  Liebmann, Brant ^a   Kiladis, George N ^b   Marengo, José A ^c   Ambrizzi, Tércio ^d   Glick, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c National Institute for Space Research   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION;

OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONE (SACZ);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE;

AMAZONIAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032760325     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1877:SCVOSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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