Interannual and intraseasonal variations in monsoon depressions and their westward-propagating predecessors

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1005-1020

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a,b   Weng, Shu Ping ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Science Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0032740156     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1005:IAIVIM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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