Influence of local and remote sea surface temperatures on precipitation as inferred from changes in boundary-layer moisture convergence and moist thermodynamics over global oceans

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 630, 2008, Pages 147-163

  Sud, Y C ^a   Walker, G K ^a   Zhou, Y P ^a   Lau, W K M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

GCM; Physical dynamic responses; Precipitation; SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; BOUNDARY-LAYER MOISTURE CONVERGENCE (BLQC); GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); MEAN VERTICAL VELOCITY;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOISTURE FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 41949134782     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.193     Document Type: Article

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