Recent change of the global monsoon precipitation (1979-2008)

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1123-1135

  Wang, Bin ^a   Liu, Jian ^b   Kim, Hyung Jin ^c   Webster, Peter J ^d   Yim, So Young ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; TRADE WIND; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863386361     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1266-z     Document Type: Article

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