Interannual to decadal variability in the tropical Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 777-792

  Dommenget, Dietmar ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

ANNUAL MEAN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WIND ZONES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0342656235     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0777:ITDVIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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