The scatter in tropical average precipitation anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3966-3977

  Su, Hui ^a   Neelin, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANOMALY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 0347948319     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3966:TSITAP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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