Modes of tropical Atlantic climate variability observed by PIRATA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Servain, Jacques ^a   Clauzet, Gabriel ^b   Wainer, Ilana C ^b  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; DIPOLE MODE; MAIN MODE; PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 19244385916     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015124     Document Type: Article

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