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Nanjundiah & Srinivasan 1999

Nanjundiah, R.S. and Srinivasan, J. (1999). Anomalies of precipitable water vapour and vertical stability during El Nino. Geophysical Research Letters 26: doi: 10.1029/1998GL900254. issn: 0094-8276.

The vertical stability of the troposphere has been shown to play an important role in the evolution of El Nino. The changes in vertical moist stability is correlated with changes in the precipitable water vapor. The precipitable water vapor in the east Pacific is larger than that in the west Pacific during El Nino events and hence the east Pacific is more unstable than the west Pacific. This promotes the formation of deep clouds and rainfall in the east Pacific instead of the west Pacific. ¿ 1999 American Geophysical Union

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, El Nino, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504), Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Tropical meteorology

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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American Geophysical Union
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