Sea Surface Temperature and Local Weather
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review
- Vol. 105 (4) , 540-544
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1977)105<0540:sstalw>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Parameterizations in numerical models of the general atmospheric circulation accord with the hypothesis advanced by lchiye and Petersen and Bjerknes—high sea surface temperatures “cause” high local rainfall. Observations at Canton Island and elsewhere in the tropics fail to support this attractively simple idea.Keywords
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