Can global warming strengthen the East Asian summer monsoon?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6696-6705

  Li, Jianping ^a   Wu, Zhiwei ^b   Jiang, Zhihong ^b   He, Jinhai ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; COUPLED MODELS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTENSITY CHANGE; INTERANNUAL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; JET STREAMS; PRIMARY RESPONSE; SOUTH CHINA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SURFACE WARMING; THERMAL CONTRASTS; TROPICAL MONSOON; WARMING CLIMATE; WESTERN PACIFIC OCEANS; YANGTZE RIVER;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAIN; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

CHINA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; SOUTH CHINA SEA; YANGTZE RIVER;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 79251559737     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3434.1     Document Type: Article

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