Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction and variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean with and without an annual cycle

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5501-5523

  Bates, Susan C ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THEOREM PROVING; TROPICS;

ANNUAL CYCLES; ANNUAL MEANS; ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERE VARIABILITIES; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANNUAL CYCLES; CONTROL SIMULATIONS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; COUPLED MODELS; CUT OFFS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; MEAN SEA SURFACES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TRADE WINDS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEANS;

LIFE CYCLE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

TOMATO ASPERMY VIRUS;

EID: 56349097792     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1983.1     Document Type: Article

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