Effect of late 1970's climate shift on tropospheric biennial oscillation - role of local Indian Ocean processes on Asian summer monsoon

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 509-521

  Pillai, Prasanth A ^a   Mohankumar, K ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Climate shift; Composite analysis; ENSO; Indian summer monsoon; Latent heat flux; Local hadley circulation; Moisture convergence; SST; Tropospheric biennial oscillation; Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SHIFTS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; ENSO; HADLEY CIRCULATION; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; TROPOSPHERIC BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; MOISTURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MOISTURE FLUX; MONSOON; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77950146327     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1903     Document Type: Article

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