Effect of ocean mesoscale variability on the mean state of tropical Atlantic climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Seo, Hyodae ^a   Jochum, Markus ^b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^c   Miller, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEAN MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) GRADIENT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RAINFALL; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33745713495     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025651     Document Type: Article

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