A role for tropical tropospheric temperature adjustment to El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the seasonality of monsoonal Indonesia precipitation predictability

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Giannini, Alesall ^a   Robertson, A W ^a   Qian, J H ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INDONESIA; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 35349005333     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008519     Document Type: Article

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