Features of the Caribbean low level jet
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Felicia S. Whyte; Michael A. Taylor; Tannecia S. Stephenson; Jayaka D. Campbell
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The Caribbean Low Level Jet (CLLJ) is shown to be a real and dominant climatological feature of the early summer Caribbean climate. It manifests as an intensification in the trade winds in the western Caribbean basin (70Β°Wβ80Β°W) with an eastβwest axis along 15Β°N. It is confined to heigh