African easterly jet: Structure and maintenance

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4459-4480

  Wu, Man Li C ^a   Reale, Oreste ^a,b   Schubert, Siegfried D ^a   Suarez, Max J ^a   Koster, Randy D ^a   Pegion, Philip J ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION CONTROL; FORCINGS; GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH-END COMPUTERS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; JETS; MAINTENANCE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TREATMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VAPORS;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JET FLOW; JET STREAM; MOISTURE FLUX; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; OROGRAPHY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA;

EID: 70350023633     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2584.1     Document Type: Article

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