Interannual variations of East Asian trough axis at 500 hPa and its association with the East Asian winter monsoon pathway

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 600-614

  Wang, Lin ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Zhou, Wen ^b   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MODULATION;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MODULATION EFFECTS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COLD AIR; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 64049116669     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2295.1     Document Type: Article

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