Modulation of Sri Lankan Maha rainfall by the Indian Ocean Dipole

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Zubair, Lareef ^a   Rao, Suryachandra ^a   Yamagata, Toshio ^a  

^a Japan Marine Sci & Technol Ctr   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); TROPOSPHERE; WATER WAVES; MODULATION; SURFACE WATERS;

RICE; COUPLED PHENOMENA; GROWING SEASON; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; RAINY SEASONS; ROBUST ASSOCIATION; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RICE;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0038266213     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015639     Document Type: Article

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