The impact of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Gochis, Dave ^b   Shuttleworth, William James ^b   Niu, Guo Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WATER WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; NORTH AMERICAN MONSOON SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0038266421     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015628     Document Type: Article

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