Sensitivity of tropical tropospheric temperature to sea surface temperature forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1283-1301

  Su, Hui ^a   Neelin, J David ^a   Meyerson, Joyce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

(CENTRAL); (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038548618     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-16.9.1283     Document Type: Article

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