Suppression of south Asian summer monsoon precipitation in the 21st century

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ashfaq, Moetasim ^a   Shi, Ying ^b   Tung, Wen Wen ^a   Trapp, Robert J ^a   Gao, Xueijie ^b   Pal, Jeremy S ^c   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CLIMATE MODELING; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; GREEN HOUSE GAS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MONSOON ONSETS; OSCILLATORY MODES; RE-ANALYSIS; SOUTH ASIA; SUMMER MONSOONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATIONS;

POLARIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 62749191480     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036500     Document Type: Article

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