The effects of midlatitude waves over and around the Tibetan Plateau on submonthly variability of the east Asian summer monsoon

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2286-2304

  Fujinami, Hatsuki ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; CONVECTIVE FLUCTUATIONS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; GRID POINTS; HUAIHE RIVER; MIDLATITUDES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PHASE SPEED; PROPAGATION ROUTE; REANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN CHINA; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LOCOMOTIVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RAILROAD CARS;

JETS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; FREE JET; JET FLOW; LEE WAVE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MONSOON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL FLOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUAI BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE BASIN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 70350341920     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2826.1     Document Type: Article

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