Interdecadal variations of the East Asain winter monsoon and their association with Quasi-stationary planetary wave activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4860-4872

  Wang, Lin ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a   Gu, Lei ^a   Chen, Wen ^a   Kang, Lihua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; COLD WAVES; DATA SETS; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN JET STREAMS; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; IN-BETWEEN; INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS; LOWER BOUNDARY; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; PLANETARY WAVES; QUASI-STATIONARY; REANALYSIS; SIBERIAN HIGHS; SUBTROPICAL JET; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; WINTER MONSOON; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; JETS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; MONSOON; PLANETARY WAVE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 70350029655     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2973.1     Document Type: Article

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