The interannual variability of summer upper-tropospheric temperature over East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6539-6553

  Zhang, Lixia ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ASIAN CONTINENT; COMBINED EFFECT; EAST ASIA; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ENSO; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MOIST PROCESS; MOMENTUM FLUX; RAINFALL ANOMALY; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TELECONNECTIONS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VORTICITY BALANCE;

DIGITAL STORAGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAIN; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEATING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84867687506     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00583.1     Document Type: Article

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