Relationships between South African rainfall and SST anomalies in the southwest Indian Ocean

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1651-1673

  Reason, C J C ^a,b   Mulenga, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modelling; Bandpass filtering; Correlation analyses; South African rainfall; Southwest Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033376187     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199912)19:15<1651::AID-JOC439>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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