Why is ENSO influencing northwest India winter precipitation in recent decades?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1979-1993

  Yadav, R K ^a   Yoo, J H ^b   Kucharski, F ^b   Abid, M A ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c Global Change Impact Studies Centre   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; BAROCLINIC; CENTRAL INDIA; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; DATA SETS; DECADAL CHANGE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL MODELING; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STATION DATA; WESTERN PACIFIC; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77953708301     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3202.1     Document Type: Article

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