Mechanisms of an extraordinary East Asian summer monsoon event in July 2011

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Seo, Kyong Hwan ^a   Son, Jun Hyeok ^a   Lee, Seung Eon ^a   Tomita, Tomohiko ^b   Park, Hyo Seok ^c  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DIABATIC HEATING; DRY CONDITION; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; HIGHER LATITUDES; MOIST FLOW; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SOUTHERN CHINA; SOUTHWESTERN JAPAN; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WET CONDITIONS;

TROPICS;

CIRCULATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; EXTREME EVENT; HEATING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; ROSSBY WAVE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; WAVE ACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; JAPAN; KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84863378932     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050378     Document Type: Article

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