Impact of El Niño/La Niña on the seasonality of oceanic water vapor: A proposed scheme for determining the ITCZ

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2940-2946

  Chen, Ge ^a   Lin, Hui ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); OCEANIC WATER VAPOR (OWV);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LA NINA; SEASONALITY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 27744540010     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3013.1     Document Type: Article

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