Air-sea humidity effects on the generation of tropical Atlantic SST anomalies during the ENSO events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu ^a,b   Tanimoto, Youichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; WIND EFFECTS;

EQUATORS; LINEAR DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; POLARITY;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOMALY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; HUMIDITY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34047216361     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027238     Document Type: Article

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