Summertime anomalous warming over the midlatitude western North Pacific and its relationships to the modulation of the Asian monsoon

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1109-1120

  Ueda, Hiroaki ^a   Kawamura, Ryuichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous warming; Asian monsoon; Climate anomaly; ENSO monsoon; Heat induced response; Sea surface temperature; Stationary Rossby wave; Western North Pacific

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; RADIATION; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

CYCLONIC FLOW; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HEAT BUDGET; MONSOON; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 3342968780     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1059     Document Type: Article

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