The impact of tropical indian ocean variability on summer surface air temperature in China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5365-5377

  Hu, Kaiming ^a,b   Huang, Gang ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

China; Indian Ocean; Kelvin waves; Rainfall; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BAROCLINIC; CHINA; EAST ASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; KELVIN WAVES; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHEAST CHINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTH CHINA; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80755130527     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4152.1     Document Type: Article

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