Tropical western Pacific warm pool and maritime continent precipitation rates and their contrasting relationships with the Walker Circulation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Dayem, Katherine E ^a   Noone, David C ^a   Molnar, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONDENSATION; HEATING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARM POOL; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 34249729268     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007870     Document Type: Article

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