Solar influence on the Indian Ocean Monsoon through dynamical processes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Kodera, Kunihiko ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

1610 Global change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1650 Global change: Solar variability; 3322 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Land atmosphere interactions; 3344 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 3362 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEAT CONVECTION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIAN OCEAN MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; SOLAR INFLUENCE; SUMMER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOLAR ACTIVITY; UPWELLING;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 14544282882     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020928     Document Type: Article

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