Isotopic signal of earlier summer monsoon onset in the Bay of Bengal

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2509-2516

  Yang, Xiaoxin ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Yang, Wulin ^b   Xu, Baiqing ^a   He, You ^a   Qu, Dongmei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Guangzhou Meteorological Satellite Ground Station   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Atmospheric; circulation; Forecast verification

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; ASIA; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; BAY OF BENGAL; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EVENT-BASED; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; GUANGZHOU; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; REANALYSIS; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SUMMER MONSOON; SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION; VAPOR SOURCES;

ATMOSPHERICS; BOILER CIRCULATION; ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84859293976     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00180.1     Document Type: Article

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