The sea ice extent anomaly in the north Pacific and its impact on the east Asian summer monsoon rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3434-3447

  Zhao, Ping ^a,b   Zhang, Xiangdong ^a   Zhou, Xiuji ^b   Ikeda, Moto ^c   Yin, Yonghong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; RAIN; SOILS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; WAVE DYNAMICS;

SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA ICE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 5444225259     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3434:TSIEAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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