A precipitation seesaw mode between northeast Asia and Siberia in summer caused by rossby wave over the Eurasian continent

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2401-2419

  Iwao, Koki ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FLUXES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEATING; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR; WAVEGUIDES;

ADIABATIC HEATING; ANOMALOUS STRETCHING; COMPOSITE FIELDS; CONDENSATION HEATING; DIABATIC HEATING; EASTERN EUROPE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EURASIA; EUROPEAN; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW-PASS; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MIDTROPOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC; OUT OF PHASE; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PROPAGATION PATTERNS; QUASI-STATIONARY; ROSSBY WAVES; SIBERIA; STRETCHING EFFECT; TIME EVOLUTIONS; WAVE PATTERNS; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WATER VAPOR; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; NORTHEAST ASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 48749110080     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1949.1     Document Type: Article

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