Interdecadal changes in the major modes of Asian-Australian monsoon variability: Strengthening relationship with ENSO since the late 1970s

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1771-1789

  Wang, Bin ^a,b,b,c   Yang, Jing ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; TROPOSPHERE;

EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); MONSOON-WARM POOL OCEAN INTERACTION; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASON-RELIANT EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (S-EOF) ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449115592     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1981.1     Document Type: Article

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