Regional atmospheric response to tropical Pacific SST perturbations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Katsafados, P ^a   Papadopoulos, A ^b   Kallos, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SST PERTURBATIONS; SYNOPTIC SCALE CIRCULATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING; TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; LIMITED AREA MODELS; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SST PERTURBATIONS; SYNOPTIC CIRCULATIONS; SYNOPTIC SCALE CIRCULATION;

EID: 19744372681     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021828     Document Type: Article

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