Summer monsoon onset in the subtropical western North Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Chi Hua ^a   Kau, Wen Shung ^a   Chou, Ming Dah ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; MONSOON ONSET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER MONSOON; SURFACE HEATING; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WIND PROFILE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL);

EID: 72149094852     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040168     Document Type: Article

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