Influences of ENSO SST anomalies and winter storm tracks on the interannual variability of upper-troposphere water vapor over the Northern Hemisphere extratropics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-73

  Wang, Hui ^a   Fu, Rong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; JETS; MOISTURE; SUBLIMATION; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STORM TRACKS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

EID: 0034070711     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0059:IOESAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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