Seasonal-to-interannual variability of Ethiopia/horn of Africa monsoon. Part I: Associations of wavelet-filtered large-scale atmospheric circulation and global sea surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3396-3421

  Segele, Zewdu T ^a   Lamb, Peter J ^a   Leslie, Lance M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN SEA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COHERENT MODES; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; IN-PHASE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOON SYSTEM; MULTIPLE TIME SCALE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; RAINFALL FREQUENCY; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL PREDICTION MODEL; TELECONNECTION; TIME-SCALE; TOTAL RAINFALL; TROPICAL EASTERLY JETS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHAINS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FREQUENCY BANDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

AFRICA; ARABIAN SEA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67651214082     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2859.1     Document Type: Article

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