Observational analysis of the wind-evaporation-SST feedback over the tropical Pacific Ocean

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-236

  Lin, Jia Lin ^a   Han, Weiqing ^b   Lin, Xin ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ITCZ; Ocean atmospheric feedback; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EVAPORATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HUMIDITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS; WARM POOL; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 60149111397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.195     Document Type: Article

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