Interannual atmospheric variability forced by the deep equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7348, 2011, Pages 497-500

  Brandt, Peter ^a   Funk, Andreas ^a   Hormann, Verena ^a,c   Dengler, Marcus ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Toole, John M ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA QUALITY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET STREAM; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVELENGTH; WIND PROFILE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 79957622462     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10013     Document Type: Article

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