Roles of the Indian Ocean in the Australian summer monsoon-ENSO relationship

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 4768-4788

  Wu, Renguang ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; DROUGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (CGCM); EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 35448974601     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4281.1     Document Type: Article

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