Summertime ENSO-North African-Asian jet teleconnection and implications for the Indian monsoons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Shaman, Jeffrey ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; VORTICITY;

EL-NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVES; TELECONNECTION LINKING;

WIND;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34547973983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029143     Document Type: Article

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