Objective determination of monsoon season onset, withdrawal, and length

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Cook, Benjamin I ^a,b   Buckley, Brendan M ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MONSOON SEASON; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; PRECIPITATION DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUMMER MONSOON; TELECONNECTIONS; THAILAND; WEATHER STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

GEOPOTENTIAL; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER STATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 72049090371     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012795     Document Type: Article

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