Structure of Interannual-to-Decadal climate variability in the tropical Atlantic sector

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3285-3297

  Ruiz Barradas, A ^a   Carton, J A ^a   Nigam, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEATING; TROPICS; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DIABATIC HEATING; OCEANIC HEAT CONTENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ATLANTIC SECTOR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034275047     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3285:SOITDC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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