Predictable climate dynamics of abnormal East Asian winter monsoon: Once-in-a-century snowstorms in 2007/2008 winter

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1661-1669

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a,b   Li, Jianping ^a   Jiang, Zhihong ^c   He, Jinhai ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; Seasonal prediction; Snowstorm

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; SNOWSTORM; SURFACE PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ARABIAN SEA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BENGAL; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 80053317149     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0938-4     Document Type: Article

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