Distinct principal modes of early and late summer rainfall anomalies in East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3864-3875

  Wang, Bin ^a   Liu, Jian ^b   Yang, Jing ^c   Zhou, Tianjun ^d   Wu, Zhiwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; EAST ASIA; INTERANNUAL; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; RAINFALL ANOMALY; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SOUTHERN CHINA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER RAINFALL; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LAND SURFACE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

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

EID: 67749127696     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2850.1     Document Type: Article

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