Role of subtropical precipitation anomalies in maintaining the summertime meridional teleconnection over the western North Pacific and East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2058-2072

  Lu, Riyu ^a   Lin, Zhongda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MODELS; BASIC FLOW; EAST ASIA; EXTRATROPICAL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT SOURCES; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SIMULATED RESULTS; STATE FLOW; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; ZONAL WIND;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROCLINIC MOTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

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

EID: 66849142317     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2444.1     Document Type: Article

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