Revisiting the trend of the tropical and subtropical Pacific surface latent heat flux during 1977-2006

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Li, Gen ^a   Ren, Baohua ^a   Yang, Chengyun ^a   Zheng, Jianqiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; LATENT HEAT; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; STRENGTHENING (METAL); SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR SEA FLUX; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; OCEAN SURFACES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE WIND SPEED; UPWARD TREND; WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS;

HEAT FLUX;

CLIMATE FORCING; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 79958065285     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015444     Document Type: Article

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