A dynamic ocean-atmosphere model of the tropical Atlantic decadal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 64-70

  Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; WHITE NOISE; WIND;

EXTRATROPICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); WIND-EVAPORATION-SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE FEEDBACK;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033055968     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.64     Document Type: Article

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