Australian monsoon variability driven by a Gill-Matsuno-type response to central west Pacific warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 4717-4736

  Taschetto, Andréa S ^a   Haarsma, Reindert J ^b   Gupta, Alexander Sen ^a   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^a   Hill, Khalia J ^a   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN RAINFALL; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; DATA SETS; DEEP CONVECTION; DIABATIC HEATING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROPAGATING DISTURBANCES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77958098696     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3474.1     Document Type: Article

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