Biennial relationship of rainfall variability between Central America and equatorial South America

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; CENTRAL AMERICA; ENSO EVENTS; IN-PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC; OUT OF PHASE; RADIATION CHANGE; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUMMER RAINFALL; WINTER RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

SUPERALLOYS;

CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77952001371     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042732     Document Type: Article

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