An observational study of intraseasonal variations over Southeast Asia during the 1998 rainy season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2091-2104

  Yokoi, Satoru ^a   Satomura, Takehiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONIC DISTURBANCE; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 24144476271     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2967.1     Document Type: Article

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