Increasing influence of ENSO and decreasing influence of AO/NAO in the recent decades over northwest India winter precipitation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Yadav, R K ^a,b   Rupa Kumar, K ^a,c   Rajeevan, M ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; INFLUENCE OF ENSO; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; JET STREAMS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MIDDLE EAST; OBSERVATION DATA SET; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SECULAR VARIATION; SHIFT-AND; STATION DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WIND PATTERNS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

SEA LEVEL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 68849090364     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011318     Document Type: Article

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