Indian Ocean Dipole influence on South American rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Chan, Steven C ^a   Behera, Swadhin K ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANTHANUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; LA PLATA BASIN; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; RE-ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SURFACE CIRCULATION; UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE;

RAIN;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE;

BRAZIL; INDIAN OCEAN; LA PLATA BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 53749091143     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034204     Document Type: Article

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