Symmetry and asymmetry of the Asian and Australian summer monsoons

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2413-2426

  Hung, Chih Wen ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^b   Yanai, Michio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; SYMMETRY;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA;

EID: 3242676219     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2413:SAAOTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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