Deconstructing Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone variability: Influence of the local cross-equatorial sea surface temperature gradient and remote forcing from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages

  Chiang, John C H ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Giannini, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Precipitation; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036126571     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jd000307     Document Type: Article

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