The eastern Pacific ITCZ during the boreal spring

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1157-1174

  Gu, Guojun ^a,b   Adler, Robert F ^b   Sobel, Adam H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROJECT MANAGEMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; VAPORS;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM); WATER VAPOR;

RAIN;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); WORLD;

EID: 18544369753     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3402.1     Document Type: Article

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