Precipitation from African easterly waves in a coupled model of the tropical Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1417-1431

  Seo, Hyodae ^a   Jochum, Markus ^b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^c   Miller, Arthur J ^a   Roads, John O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EASTERLY WAVES; GLOBAL COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); RAINFALL DISTRIBUTIONS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATE MODELING; EASTERLY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 44349161177     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1906.1     Document Type: Article

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