Influences of the Atlantic warm pool on western hemisphere summer rainfall and Atlantic hurricanes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3011-3028

  Wang, Chunzai ^a   Enfield, David B ^a   Lee, Sang Ki ^b   Landsea, Christopher W ^c  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; HURRICANES; MOISTURE; RAIN; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; DRIZZLE; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; STRATUS CLOUD;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD COVER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATUS; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN COAST [MEXICO]; GREAT PLAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646370641     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3770.1     Document Type: Article

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