A multi-time scale Australian monsoon index

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1114-1120

  Kajikawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Yang, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Australian monsoon; Circulation index; Monsoon onset; Multi scale

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS; MARITIME CONTINENT; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; MONSOON INDEX; MONSOON ONSET; MULTI-TIME SCALE; MULTISCALES; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL CYCLE; SUMMER MONSOON; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZONAL WIND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77954418143     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1955     Document Type: Article

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