An analysis of moisture fluxes into the gulf of California

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2216-2239

  Wu, Man Li C ^a   Schubert, Siegfried D ^a   Suarez, Max J ^a   Huang, Norden E ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; ANALYSIS APPROACH; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPMENT PHASE; EAST COAST; EASTERLY WAVE; EASTERN PACIFIC; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EXTRATROPICAL; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; GULF OF MEXICO; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ME-XICO; MIDLATITUDE; MOISTURE FLUXES; SHORTWAVE TROUGHS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALE; WEST COAST; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MOISTURE;

EASTERLY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE FLUX; WESTERLY;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 64049107903     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2525.1     Document Type: Article

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