On the association between spring Arctic sea ice concentration and Chinese summer rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Bingyi ^c   Zhang, Renhe ^c   Wang, Bin ^b   D'Arrigo, Rosanne ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; GREENLAND SEA; HEIGHT ANOMALY; LAKE BAIKAL; NORTHEAST CHINA; SNOW COVERS; SOUTH CHINA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SUMMER RAINFALL; WAVE TRAIN; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ANOMALY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEA ICE; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GREENLAND SEA; LAKE BAIKAL; NORWEGIAN SEA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 68249158104     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037299     Document Type: Article

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