Factors contributing to the onset of the Australian summer monsoon

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 597 PART B, 2004, Pages 739-758

  Hung, Chih Wen ^a   Yanai, Michio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic instability; Heating processes over Australia; Land sea thermal contrast; Madden Julian oscillation

Indexed keywords

BAROMETERS; HEATING; MOISTURE; OSCILLATIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND;

MOIST AIR; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR);

METEOROLOGY;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SUMMER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1642292510     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.191     Document Type: Article

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