Does a dipole mode really exist in the South Atlantic Ocean?

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Nnamchi, Hyacinth C ^a,b,c   Li, Jianping ^a   Anyadike, Raymond N C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRAL WINTER; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DATA SETS; DIPOLE MODE; PEAK INTENSITY; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SST ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 80051705200     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015579     Document Type: Article

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