Assessment of the impacts of the 1997-98 El Niño on the Asian-Australia Monsoon

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1747-1750

  Lau, K M ^a,b   Wu, H T ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SM and A Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RAIN; TROPICS;

ASIAN-AUSTRALIA MONSOON; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033563610     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900307     Document Type: Article

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