Interactive aspects of the Indian and the African summer monsoon systems

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 1699-1716

  Sanjeeva Rao, P ^a   Sikka, D R ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Clouds; Convection; Inter tropical convergence zone; Madden Julian oscillation and tropics; Monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548297910     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-007-0240-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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