Warming of an elevated layer over the Caribbean

Climatic Change

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 247-259

  Jury, Mark R ^a   Winter, Amos ^a  

^a UPRM   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; AIR TEMPERATURE; FASTER RATES; HADLEY CIRCULATION; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEA TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TRADE WINDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEWATERING; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COMPOSITE; DUST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HADLEY CELL; HEAT FLUX; PHYSICAL METHOD; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TRADE WIND; WARMING; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 77149129570     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9658-3     Document Type: Article

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