Mechanisms for precipitation variability of the Eastern Brazil/SACZ convective margin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3445-3456

  Ma, H Y ^a,c   Ji, X ^a,b   Neelin, J D ^a   Mechoso, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Precipitation; South Atlantic convergence zone

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BIOSPHERE MODELS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; COUPLED MODELS; DATA SETS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MODEL EQUATIONS; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; MOISTURE ADVECTION; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME-SCALES; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , LOS ANGELES; WESTERN ATLANTIC; WIND PERTURBATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ADVECTION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EASTERLY WAVE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); BRAZIL;

EID: 79960337569     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4070.1     Document Type: Article

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