20-50-day oscillation of summer Yangtze rainfall in response to intraseasonal variations in the subtropical high over the western North Pacific and South China Sea

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 747-761

  Mao, Jiangyu ^a   Sun, Zhang ^a,b   Wu, Guoxiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Zhejiang Meteorological Observatory   (China)

Author keywords

Intraseasonal oscillation; Subtropical high; Summer Yangtze rainfall; The western North pacific

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CONVECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; SUMMER; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PHILIPPINE SEA; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 77951768532     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0628-2     Document Type: Article

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