Seasonally evolving dominant interannual variability modes of East Asian climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2992-3005

  Wu, Bo ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Li, Tim ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ANOMALOUS HEATING; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; DOMINANT MODE; DRY CONDITION; EAST ASIA; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENHANCED CONVECTION; HADLEY CIRCULATION; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REMOTE FORCING; SEASON-RELIANT EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SEASONAL MEAN PRECIPITATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATIVE FLUX; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEASTERN CHINA; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; VELOCITY POTENTIALS; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; OCEANIC CONVECTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 67650564913     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2710.1     Document Type: Article

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