The impacts of inter-El Niño variability on the tropical Atlantic and northeast Brazil climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3402-3422

  Rodrigues, Regina R ^a,c   Haarsma, Reindert J ^b   Campos, Edmo J D ^a   Ambrizzi, Tércio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Climate; Currents; El Ni o; Precipitation; Sea surface temperature; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA; BOREAL SPRING; BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE; HEATING SOURCE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; OCEAN DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; UPWELLING REGION; WALKER CIRCULATION; WAVE TRAIN; WIND ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOCLINE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; UPWELLING; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BRAZIL;

EID: 79960335409     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3983.1     Document Type: Article

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