Linkages between summer rainfall variability over South America and sea surface temperature anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1389-1407

  Paegle, Julia N ^a   Mo, Kingtse C ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; SATELLITES;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES (SSTA);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0037096642     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1389:LBSRVO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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