Characteristics of Arabian Sea mini warm pool and Indian summer monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2073-2087

  Neema, C P ^a   Hareeshkumar, P V ^b   Babu, C A ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NAVAL PHYSICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY   (India)

^c Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea mini warm pool; Deficient, normal and excess monsoon years; Sea surface temperature; Summer monsoon onset

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WARM POOL;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; KERALA;

EID: 84860400033     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1166-2     Document Type: Article

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