Tropical Atlantic seasonal predictability: The roles of El Niño remote influence and thermodynamic air-sea feedback

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Chang, Ping ^a   Saravanan, R ^b   Ji, Link ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; OCEAN ENGINEERING; THERMODYNAMICS;

SEASONAL PREDICTABILITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0042283552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016119     Document Type: Article

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