A new monsoon index and the geographical distribution of the global monsoons

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-302

  Li, Jianping ^a   Zeng, Qingcun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamical normalized seasonality; Global monsoon system; Monsoon index

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INDEX METHOD; MONSOON; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0142156166     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-003-0016-5     Document Type: Article

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