Local rainfall-SST relationship on subseasonal time scales in satellite observations and CFS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b   Pegion, Kathy ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA COUPLINGS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; REGION-BASED; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIME LAGS; TIME-SCALES;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL REGION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 60149111288     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035883     Document Type: Article

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