Influence of the anticyclonic anomaly in the subtropical jet over the western tibetan plateau on the intraseasonal variability of the summer asian monsoon in early summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1291-1303

  Watanabe, Takeshi ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ANTICYCLONIC ANOMALIES; ARABIAN SEA; ASIAN MONSOON; EAST ASIA; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; HEAT LOW; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MAIN PROCESS; PHILIPPINES; POSITIVE VALUE; QUASI-STATIONARY; REANALYSIS; REGION-BASED; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUBTROPICAL JET; THAR DESERT; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONE; GEOPOTENTIAL; JET STREAM; MONSOON; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

AFGHANISTAN; ARABIAN SEA; CHINA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; THAR DESERT; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 84863069151     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00036.1     Document Type: Article

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