Variations of the winter India-Burma Trough and their links to climate anomalies over southern and eastern Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Tongmei ^a   Yang, Song ^b   Wen, Zhiping ^a   Wu, Renguang ^c   Zhao, Ping ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; EAST ASIA; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; INTERDECADAL; INTERDECADAL CHANGES; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTHERN CHINA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES;

CYCLONE; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROUGH; VORTICITY; WESTERLY; WINTER;

FAR EAST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 84055211798     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016373     Document Type: Article

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