Subseasonal extremes of precipitation and active-break cycles of the Indian summer monsoon in a climate-change scenario

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 549-567

  Turner, A G ^a   Slingo, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active break events; Asian summer monsoon; Global warming; Intraseasonal oscillation; Rainfall extremes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE-BREAK EVENTS; AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT; ANNUAL CYCLE; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; CLIMATE-CHANGE; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; HEAVY RAIN EVENT; HEAVY RAINFALL; IN-LINE; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MEAN INTENSITY; MONSOON RAINFALL; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; RAINFALL EXTREMES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SUMMER RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GLOBAL WARMING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SUMMER; WET SEASON;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 69549108859     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.401     Document Type: Article

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