A prototype for convective margin shifts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lintner, Ben R ^a   Neelin, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE PERTURBATIONS; EL NINO FORCING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 34249914513     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027305     Document Type: Article

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