Processes controlling the mean tropical pacific precipitation pattern. Part I: The Andes and the eastern Pacific ITCZ

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3434-3451

  Takahashi, Ken ^a,b   Battisti, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); LOWER SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EVAPORATION; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANDES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547918036     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4198.1     Document Type: Article

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