The South Asian summer monsoon and its relationship with ENSO in the IPCC AR4 simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1071-1092

  Annamalai, Hanna ^a   Hamilton, K ^a   Sperber, K R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); MONSOON PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL VARIATIONS; SUMMER MONSOON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34147112927     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4035.1     Document Type: Article

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