AGCM precipitation biases in the tropical Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 935-958

  Biasutti, Michela ^a   Sobel, A H ^b   Kushnir, Y ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

BOREAL SPRING; BOREAL SUMMER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WIND;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 33646014194     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3673.1     Document Type: Article

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