Dominant factors responsible for interannual variability of the summer monsoon in the southwestern United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 759-776

  Higgins, R W ^a   Shi, W ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RAIN;

INTERANNUAL ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; SUMMER MONSOON;

WIND;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION;

(SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0343167398     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0759:DFRFIV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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