Atmospheric response to South Atlantic SST dipole

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Haarsma, Reindert J ^a   Campos, Edmo J D ^b   Molteni, Franco ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; WIND;

BAROTROPIC RESPONSES;

GEOPHYSICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

(SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0344961752     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017829     Document Type: Article

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