Variability of Indian summer monsoon in a new upper tropospheric humidity data set

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Xavier, Prince K ^a   John, Viju O ^a   Buehler, S A ^b   Ajayamohan, R S ^c   Sijikumar, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WARM CONDITIONS;

FEEDBACK; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; HUMIDITY; MONSOON; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77949288620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041861     Document Type: Article

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