Effects of time-dependent large-scale forcing, solar zenith angle, and sea surface temperature on time-mean tropical rainfall processes

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-105

  Gao, Shouting ^a   Li, Xiaofan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOGA-COARE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 77949272744     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0053-4     Document Type: Article

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