Atmosphere-warm ocean interaction and its impacts on Asian-Australian monsoon variation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1195-1211

  Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Renguang ^a   Li, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0141857717     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)16<1195:AOIAII>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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