Pacific Ocean origin for the 2009 Indian summer monsoon failure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Ratnam, J Venkata ^a,b   Behera, Swadhin K ^a,b   Masumoto, Y ^a,c   Takahashi, K ^b,d   Yamagata, T ^b,c  

^a Institute for Global Change Research   (Japan)

^b Application Laboratory   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

El Ni o Modoki; Indian monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; EASTERN PACIFIC; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; TELECONNECTIONS; WALKER CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955617115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042798     Document Type: Article

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