Variation of the North American summer monsoon regimes and the atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2371-2383

  Hu, Qi ^a   Feng, Song ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; COLD PHASES; DIFFERENT PROCESSES; IN PHASE; MOISTURE TRANSPORTING; MONSOON REGIMES; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; SUMMER MONSOONS; SUMMER RAINFALL; TIME SCALING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNITED STATES; VARIATION PATTERNS; WARM-SEASON RAINFALL; WIND ANOMALIES; WINTER SEASONS;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MOISTURE FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TIMESCALE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED STATES;

EID: 48749104747     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2005.1     Document Type: Article

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