Relationships between precipitation and surface temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Shea, Dennis J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; WARM MOIST ADVECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 25444449591     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022760     Document Type: Article

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