Impact of the Madden-Julian oscillation on summer rainfall in Southeast China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-216

  Zhang, Lina ^a,b   Wang, Bizheng ^a   Zeng, Qingcun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; ENERGY PROPAGATION; INDIAN OCEANS; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATIONS; MOISTURE TRANSPORTS; PHYSICAL FIELDS; RAINFALL DATUM; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL REGIMES; ROSSBY WAVES; SUMMER RAINFALLS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEANS; UPWARD MOTIONS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

MOISTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE FLUX; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 64049111864     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1959.1     Document Type: Article

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