Simulations of the atmospheric response to South Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2540-2551

  Robertson, Andrew W ^a   Farrara, John D ^b   Mechoso, Carlos R ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141571505     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2540:SOTART>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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