Extratropical control of tropical climate, the atmospheric bridge and oceanic tunnel

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Yang, Haijun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; CLIMATE MODELS; TROPICS;

TROPICAL CLIMATE; EXTRATROPICAL; HADLEY CIRCULATION; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TROPICAL CLIMATES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0042701617     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016492     Document Type: Article

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