Short timescale air-sea coupling in the tropical deep convective regime

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 37-44

  Gao, Shouting ^a   Ping, F ^a   Cui, X ^a   Li, X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33745397225     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0161-8     Document Type: Article

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