Caribbean Sea rainfall variability during the rainy season and relationship to the equatorial Pacific and tropical Atlantic SST

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1533-1550

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); CARIBBEAN SEA; GULF OF MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 80053340258     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0927-7     Document Type: Article

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