Tropical Atlantic air-sea interaction and its influence on the NAO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1507-1510

  Okumura, Yuko ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Numaguti, Atusi ^b   Tanimoto, Youichi ^b  

^a University of Hawaii Hilo   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC TELECONNECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; EVAPORATION; WIND;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

EID: 0035870403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012565     Document Type: Article

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