Seasonal shifts in the North American monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1923-1935

  Grantz, Katrina ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^a   Clark, Martyn ^b   Zagona, Edith ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; THERMAL GRADIENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CORRELATION; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249681406     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4091.1     Document Type: Article

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