Intraseasonal teleconnection between North American and Western North Pacific monsoons with 20-day time scale

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2664-2679

  Jiang, Xianan ^a,b   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FLOW PATTERNS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS;

AMERICA; ARIZONA; BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; CALIFORNIA; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DATA SETS; EASTERN PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; FLUX VECTORS; GREAT CIRCLE; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MID LATITUDES; NEW MEXICO; RE-ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME SCALING; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE TRAINS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; FLOW PATTERN; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARIZONA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; GULF OF MEXICO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48749110079     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2024.1     Document Type: Article

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