Impact of the thermal state of the tropical western Pacific on onset date and process of the South China Sea summer monsoon

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 909-924

  Hung, Ronghui ^a   Gu, Lei ^a   Zhou, Liantong ^a   Wu, Shangsen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Oceanic Meteorology   (China)

Author keywords

Convective activity; The South China Sea summer monsoon; The tropical western Pacific; The Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845929421     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0909-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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