Seasonal march and its spatial difference of rainfall in the Philippines

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 715-725

  Akasaka, Ikumi ^a   Morishima, W ^b   Mikami, T ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EDOGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Monsoon trough; Onset; Orographic effect; Rainfall; Seasonal march; Subtropical high; The Philippines

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; RAIN; TROPICS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF); MONSOON TROUGH; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PHILLIPINES; SEASONAL MARCH; SUBTROPICAL HIGH;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34248174886     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1428     Document Type: Article

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