The importance of high-frequency sea surface temperature variability to the intraseasonal oscillation of Indian monsoon rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6119-6140

  Klingaman, Nicholas P ^a   Inness, Peter M ^a   Weller, Hilary ^a   Slingo, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; CONVECTIVE EVENTS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INDIAN MONSOON RAINFALLS; INDIAN MONSOONS; INDIAN OCEANS; INFRARED SOUNDERS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITIES; PROPAGATION SPEED; RAINFALL VARIABILITIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITIES; SST ANOMALIES; UNITED KINGDOMS; WEATHER FORECASTS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 60749116918     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2329.1     Document Type: Article

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