Physical response of the tropical-subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to decadal-multidecadal forcing by African dust

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5817-5829

  Evan, Amato T ^a   Foltz, Gregory R ^b   Zhang, Dongxiao ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Decadal variability; Radiative forcing; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; STORMS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; DUST; HEAT BUDGET; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867665361     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00438.1     Document Type: Article

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