Two distinct patterns of spring Eurasian snow cover anomaly and their impacts on the East Asian summer monsoon

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Yim, So Young ^a,b   Jhun, Jong Ghap ^a   Lu, Riyu ^c   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; RAIN;

DIPOLE PATTERNS; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EURASIA; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPRING SNOW; SUMMER RAINFALL; WAVE TRAIN;

SNOW;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 78649495396     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD013996     Document Type: Article

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