Stable isotopes in East African precipitation record Indian Ocean zonal mode

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Vuille, Mathias ^a   Werner, M ^b   Bradley, R S ^a   Chan, R Y ^a   Keimig, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AGCM); INDIAN OCEAN ZONAL MODE(IOZM); LARGE-SCALE OVERTUNING CIRCULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; STABLE ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; OVERTURN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STABLE ISOTOPE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 29344461979     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023876     Document Type: Article

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