The Asian summer monsoon response to the La Niña event of 2010

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-225

  Mujumdar, Milind ^a   Preethi, B ^a   Sabin, T P ^a   Ashok, Karumuri ^a   Saeed, Sajjad ^b   Pai, D S ^c   Krishnan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c Ministry of Earth Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; La Ni a; Trend in SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; FLOODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TROPICS;

ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT; ASIAN MONSOON; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CENTRAL INDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SUMMER MONSOON; TREND IN SST;

LANTHANUM;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; EPISODIC EVENT; LA NINA; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84861837675     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1301     Document Type: Article

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