The annual cycle over the tropical Atlantic, south America, and Africa

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2491-2508

  Biasutti, Michela ^a   Battisti, D S ^a   Sarachik, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

REMOTE EFFECTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141682940     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2491:TACOTT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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