Large-scale index for South America Monsoon (LISAM)

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 51-57

  da Silva, Ana Elizabethe ^a   Véspoli de Carvalho, Leila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Combined EOF; Intraseasonal variation; Monsoon index; South America Monsoon

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; INDEX METHOD; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548332517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.150     Document Type: Article

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