Interannual variability of Caribbean rainfall, ENSO, and the Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 297-311

  Giannini, Alessandra ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Cane, Mark A ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (SLP); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 0034037729     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0297:IVOCRE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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