Circumglobal wave train and the summer monsoon over northwestern India and Pakistan: The explicit role of the surface heat low

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1045-1060

  Saeed, Sajjad ^a,b,c   Müller, Wolfgang A ^a   Hagemann, Stefan ^a   Jacob, Daniela ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

^c PAKISTAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Circumglobal wave train; Eurasian wave train; Heat low; Indian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLOW; MONSOON; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SUMMER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AFGHANISTAN; ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; PAKISTAN;

EID: 80052265903     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0888-x     Document Type: Article

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