North African climate variability. Part 1: Tropical thermocline coupling

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 25-36

  Yeshanew, Abebe ^a   Jury, Mark R ^b  

^a National Meteorological Services Agency   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COUPLING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; THERMOCLINE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247222726     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-006-0242-8     Document Type: Article

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