Tropical Pacific upper ocean heat content variations and Indian summer monsoon rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Rajeevan, M ^a   McPhaden, Michael J ^b  

^a Office of Climate Research and Services   (India)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

3309 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3354 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 3374 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Tropical meteorology; 4504 Oceanography: Physical: Air sea interactions (0312).; 4522 Oceanography: Physical: El Nino

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; OSCILLATIONS;

INDIAN SOUTHWEST MONSOON RAINFALL (ISMR); PREMONSOON SEASON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

RAIN;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MONSOON; RAINFALL; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 10644259572     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020631     Document Type: Article

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