The earliest onset areas and mechanism of the tropical Asian summer monsoon

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-142

  Qian, Yongfu ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Jiang, Jing ^a   Yao, Yonghong ^a   Xu, Zhongfeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mechanism analyses; The India summer monsoon; The SCS summer monsoon; The South Asian high; The tropical Asian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; SUMMER;

EID: 24144491146     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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