Upper tropospheric drying and the "transition to break" in the Indian summer monsoon during 1999

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Rao, Kusuma G ^a   Desbois, Michel ^a   Roca, Remy ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD STRUCTURES; DIURNAL CLOUD; TROPHOSPHERIC DRYING;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CONVERGENCE; METEOSAT; MONSOON; REMOTE SENSING; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 18144439806     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018269     Document Type: Article

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