Nonlinearity of the extratropical response to tropical forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2597-2608

  Lin, Hai ^a   Derome, Jacques ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EXTRATROPICAL RESPONSE; TROPICAL FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO; LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 3843051446     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2597:NOTERT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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