Satellite and buoy observations of boreal summer intraseasonal variability in the tropical northeast pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-19

  Maloney, Eric D ^a   Esbensen, Steven K ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES; TROPICS; WIND;

BOREAL SUMMER INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; QUICK SCATTEROMETER OCEAN VECTOR WINDS; SUMMERTIME INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM); WIND-EVAPORATION FEEDBACK;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; JET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WARM POOL; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

SESBANIA SERICEA;

EID: 33846701253     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3271.1     Document Type: Article

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