The development of the South Asian summer monsoon and the Intraseasonal Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2054-2075

  Wu, Man Li C ^a   Schubert, Siegfried ^a   Huang, Norden E ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MOISTURE; RAIN;

ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; MONSOON RAINS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MONSOON; OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY;

ASIA;

EID: 0032755304     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2054:TDOTSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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