A model investigation of the role of air-sea interaction in the climatological evolution and ENSO-related variability of the summer monsoon over the South China Sea and Western North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4771-4792

  Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Nath, Mary Jo ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CIRCULATION CHANGES; CLOUD COVER; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; FORCINGS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INDIAN OCEAN; MODEL INFERENCE; MONSOON ONSET; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; OCEAN SURFACES; PARALLEL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; REMOTE RESPONSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; SUMMER MONSOON; SURFACE WIND SPEED; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-ICE INTERACTION; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 70350005243     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2758.1     Document Type: Article

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