Differing trends in the tropical surface temperatures and precipitation over land and oceans

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 653-664

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Yang, Fanglin ^b   Goddard, Lisa ^c   Schubert, Siegfried ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL LATITUDES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 1642396692     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0653:DTITTS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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