Excitation mechanisms of the teleconnection patterns affecting the July precipitation in Northwest China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7834-7851

  Chen, Guosen ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS DATA; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; DIVERGENT FLOW; EXCITATION MECHANISMS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NORTHWEST CHINA; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; RAINFALL DATA; ROAD PATTERNS; ROSSBY WAVE; SST ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL RAINFALL; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

EXCITED STATES; OCEAN CURRENTS; ROADS AND STREETS; SILK; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TROPICS;

RAIN;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84869767929     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00684.1     Document Type: Article

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