Pacific-East Asian teleconnection: How does ENSO affect East Asian climate?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1517-1536

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Renguang ^a   Fu, Xiouhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT CONVECTION; WIND;

ANTICYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL-TROPICAL INTERACTIONS; ROSSBY-WAVE RESPONSE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; TELECONNECTION;

(CENTRAL); (EAST); ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034044074     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1517:PEATHD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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