Influence of the Gulf Stream on the troposphere

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7184, 2008, Pages 206-209

  Minobe, Shoshiro ^a   Kuwano Yoshida, Akira ^b   Komori, Nobumasa ^b   Xie, Shang Ping ^c   Small, Richard Justin ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLOUD; CYCLOGENESIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STREAM; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; GULF STREAM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 40749126156     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06690     Document Type: Article

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