Megadroughts in the Indian monsoon region and southwest North America and a mechanism for associated multidecadal Pacific Sea surface temperature anomalies

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1605-1623

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Hu, Aixue ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HEAT CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER WAVES;

CONVECTIVE HEATING ANOMALIES; MEGADROUGHTS; MULTIDECADAL PACIFIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; OCEAN ROSSBY WAVES; PRECIPITATION HEATING ANOMALIES; TROPICAL-MIDLATITUDE INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND STRESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33744471928     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3675.1     Document Type: Article

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