The Southeast Pacific warm band and double ITCZ

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1189-1208

  Masunaga, Hirohiko ^a   L'Ecuyer, Tristan S ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP CONVECTION; EAST PACIFIC; GROWING PROCESS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KEY FACTORS; LONG WAVES; NEGATIVE FLUXES; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; QUIKSCAT; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; WATER VAPOR;

RAIN GAGES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; RAINBAND; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 77953653349     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3124.1     Document Type: Article

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