Effects of the Andes on Eastern Pacific climate: A regional atmospheric model study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 589-602

  Xu, Haiming ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONES (ITCZ);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODELING; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ANDES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642383787     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0589:EOTAOE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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