A global-scale examination of monsoon-related precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4121-4133

  Janowiak, John E ^a   Xie, Pingping ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DATASETS; INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 1642439245     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<4121:AGEOMP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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