Antecedents and self-induction of active-break south Asian monsoon unraveled by satellites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Wang, Bin ^a   Webster, Peter J ^b   Teng, Haiyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEANN (EIO); INDIAN MONSOON INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; SELF-INDUCTION; SURFACE WIND CONVERGENCE;

CLIMATOLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; MONSOON; SATELLITE DATA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

ASIAN MONSOON; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN MONSOON INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; INDUCTION MECHANISM; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE WIND CONVERGENCE;

EID: 19744372862     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020996     Document Type: Article

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