The influence of ENSO on air-sea interaction in the Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2002, Pages

  Alexander, Michael ^a   Scott, James ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; INFLUENCE OF ENSO; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037101693     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014347     Document Type: Article

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