Relationships between tropical sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Fasullo, John T ^a   O'Dell, Chris ^b   Wong, Takmeng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EARTH RADIATION; GLOBAL DOMAIN; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LONG WAVES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NET RADIATION; OCEAN HEAT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PINATUBO; RADIATION CHANGE; RADIATIVE FLUXES; ROBUST METHODS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL REGIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE EFFECT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HEAT FLUX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

CENTRAL LUZON; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 76349109027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042314     Document Type: Article

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