The break in the Mongolian rainy season and its relation to the stationary Rossby wave along the Asian jet

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3394-3405

  Iwasaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Nii, Tomomi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERANNUAL VARIATION; RAINY SEASON; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL EVOLUTION; STATIONARY WAVE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 33746833580     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3806.1     Document Type: Article

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