On the radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial Pacific cold tongue

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2425-2432

  Sun, De Zheng ^a   Fasullo, John ^b   Zhang, Tao ^a   Roubicek, Andres ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ERROR SOURCES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COLD POOL; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; RADIATIVE FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042890458     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2786.1     Document Type: Article

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