Modulation of the Tibetan Plateau snow cover on the ENSO teleconnections: From the East Asian summer monsoon perspective

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2481-2489

  Wu, Zhiwei ^a,b   Li, Jianping ^b   Jiang, Zhihong ^a   Ma, Tingting ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Atmospheric circulation; ENSO; Extratropics; Pacific Ocean; Teleconnections; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENSO; EXTRATROPICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TELECONNECTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; MONSOON; ROSSBY WAVE; SNOW COVER; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84859364041     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00135.1     Document Type: Article

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