Relationship between intraseasonal oscillation and diurnal variation of summer rainfall over the South China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ho, Chang Hoi ^a   Park, Myung Sook ^a   Choi, Yong Sang ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; RAIN; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; LAND-BASED CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; OCEANIC CONVECTIVE SYSTEM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; DIURNAL VARIATION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; THERMODYNAMICS; ZONAL WIND;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 41849103812     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031962     Document Type: Article

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