Sensitivity of South American summer rainfall to tropical Pacific Ocean SST anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hill, K J ^a   Taschetto, A S ^a   England, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SST ANOMALIES; SUMMER RAINFALL; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL RAINFALL; WALKER CIRCULATION; WAVE TRAIN;

RAIN;

MOISTURE TRANSFER; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 78651267803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045571     Document Type: Article

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