The tropical atmospheric El Niño signal satellite precipitation data and a global climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3580-3601

  Chen, Yonghua ^a,b   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b   Chen, Junye ^c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER SATELLITES;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LINEAR CROSS-CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; STRATIFORM RAINFALL FRACTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL;

EID: 34547858578     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4208.1     Document Type: Article

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