Connection of the South China sea summer monsoon to maritime continent convection and ENSO

Journal of Tropical Meteorology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Gu, De Jun ^a   Li, Tim ^b   Ji, Zhong Ping ^c   Zheng, Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Guangzhou Central Meteorological Observatory   (China)

Author keywords

Anomalous westerly: ENSO; Cross equatorial flow; Maritime continent; South China sea summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051740536     PISSN: 10068775     EISSN: 10044965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-8775.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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