What controls equatorial Atlantic winds in boreal spring?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3091-3104

  Richter, Ingo ^a   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Doi, Takeshi ^a   Taguchi, Bunmei ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ni o; Bjerknes feedback; Double ITCZ; Equatorial Atlantic; Gill model; Interannual variability; Lindzen Nigam model; Surface winds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939885391     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2170-0     Document Type: Article

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