Water vapor fluxes over the Intra-Americas Sea: Seasonal and interannual variability and associations with rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1910-1922

  Mestas Nuñez, Alberto M ^a,c   Enfield, David B ^b   Zhang, Chidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; WATER VAPOR;

MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; WATER VAPOR FLUX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION; JET FLOW; MOISTURE FLUX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 34249674021     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4096.1     Document Type: Article

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