The crucial role of ocean-atmosphere coupling on the Indian monsoon anomalous response during dipole events

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Krishnan, R ^a   Sundaram, Suchithra ^a,b   Swapna, P ^a   Kumar, Vinay ^a,c   Ayantika, D C ^a   Mujumdar, M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous wet Indian monsoons; Indian ocean dipole; Numerical simulation; Ocean atmosphere coupling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; MIXED LAYER; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 79959798413     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0830-2     Document Type: Article

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