Climate adjustments over the African-Indian monsoon regions accompanying Mediterranean Sea thermal variability

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Fontaine, Bernard ^a   Monerie, Paul Arthur ^a   Gaetani, Marco ^b   Roucou, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE CONTENT; CLIMATE IMPACTS; DEEP CONVECTION; KEY FEATURE; LOW LEVEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL RESULTS; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; RAINFALL ANOMALY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AFRICA; INDIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84055176274     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016273     Document Type: Article

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