Objective definition of the Indian summer monsoon onset

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3303-3316

  Wang, Bin ^a   Ding, Qinghua ^a   Joseph, P V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ARABIAN SEA; COMPLEX PROCESSES; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MONSOON ONSET; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBJECTIVE DEFINITION; RAINY SEASONS; SUBJECTIVE METHODS; TIME-SCALE; ZONAL WIND;

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TIMESCALE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WESTERLY; ZONAL WIND;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); KERALA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67651225457     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2675.1     Document Type: Article

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