The impact of Indian Ocean SST on the large-scale Asian summer monsoon and the hydrological cycle

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 617-632

  Zhu, Yunlai ^a   Houghton, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Climate model anomaly experiments; Hydrological cycle; Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MONSOON; MONSOONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES;

ASIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0029810131     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199606)16:6<617::AID-JOC32>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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