Local air-sea relationship in observations and model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4914-4932

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b   Pegion, Kathy ^b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EVAPORATION; RAIN; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AGCM); COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (CGCM); RAINFALL-EVAPORATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EVAPORATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33750231876     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3904.1     Document Type: Article

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