Interannual summer temperature variations over Japan and their relation to large-scale atmospheric circulation field

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 641-652

  Yasunaka, Sayaka ^a   Hanawa, Kimio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33750318354     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.641     Document Type: Article

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