Precipitation variability over the South Asian monsoon heat low and associated teleconnections

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Saeed, Sajjad ^a,b,c   Müller, Wolfgang A ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^a,d   Mujumdar, M ^e   Krishnan, R ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^c PAKISTAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Pakistan)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN;

ASIAN MONSOON; CLIMATE SIMULATION; HEAT LOW; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LEAD-LAG; NORTHERN CHINA; PAKISTAN; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 79955386235     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046984     Document Type: Article

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