Negative ocean-atmosphere feedback in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  De Almeida, Roberto A F ^a   Nobre, P ^a   Haarsma, R J ^b   Campos, E J D ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

NEGATIVE OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE FEEDBACK; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTH ATLANTIC CONVERGENCE ZONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 36549041469     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030401     Document Type: Article

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