The first transition of the Asian summer monsoon, intraseasonal oscillation and Taiwan Mei-yu

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1552-1568

  Hung, Chih Wen ^a   Hsu, Huang Hsiung ^b  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND;

MONSOON FLOW; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 44449114638     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1457.1     Document Type: Article

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