Atmospheric circulation cells associated with anomalous east Asian winter monsoon

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 913-926

  Zeng, Gang ^a,c   Wang, Wei Chyung ^b   Sun, Zhaobo ^a   Li, Zhongxian ^a  

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

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; Hadley cell; midlatitude zonal cell; sea surface temperature anomaly; zonal Walker cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959402626     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-0100-6     Document Type: Article

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