The Asian Monsoon, the tropospheric biennial oscillation, and the Indian Ocean zonal mode in the NCAR CSM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1617-1642

  Loschnigg, Johannes ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^b   Webster, Peter J ^c   Arblaster, Julie M ^b   Compo, Gilbert P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE;

MONSOON;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0038684076     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1617:TAMTTB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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