The relationship of land-ocean thermal anomaly difference with mei-yu and South China Sea summer monsoon

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-179

  Wang, Zhifu ^a,b   Qian, Yongfu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Composite analysis; Correlation analysis; Land ocean thermal anomaly difference; South China Sea summer monsoon; Yangtze River Huaihe River mei yu rainfall

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649386195     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-0169-y     Document Type: Article

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