Recurrent teleconnection patterns linking summertime precipitation variability over East Asia and North America

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1309-1324

  Lau, K M ^a   Weng, Hengyi ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GEOPOTENTIAL; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0036966390     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.80.1309     Document Type: Article

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