Interaction of the Atlantic equatorial cold tongue and the African monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3589-3602

  Okumura, Yuko ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COOLING; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEANIC COOLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COOLING; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 7044247832     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3589:IOTAEC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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