The ENSO teleconnection to the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Contributions of the remote and local SSTs to rainfall variability in the Tropical Americas

Journal of Climate

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4530-4544

  Giannini, Alessandra ^a   Chiang, John C H ^a   Cane, Mark A ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Seager, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

RAIN;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0035894796     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<4530:TETTTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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