Climate extremes in Malaysia and the equatorial South China Sea

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 83-91

  Salahuddin, Ahmed ^a,b   Curtis, Scott ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; Madden Julian Oscillation; Rainfall; Real time multivariate; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; CLIMATE EXTREMES; EAST COAST; EXTREME RAINFALL; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; MARITIME CONTINENT; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; REAL-TIME MULTIVARIATE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; WEST COAST; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND DATA; ZONAL WIND;

TIME SERIES;

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

MALAYSIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; WEST MALAYSIA;

EID: 80052142092     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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