The leading pattern of intraseasonal and interannual Indian ocean precipitation variability and its relationship with Asian circulation during the boreal cold season

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7509-7526

  Hoell, Andrew ^a,b,c   Barlow, Mathew ^a,b   Saini, Roop ^a,b  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Interdecadal variability; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS WINDS; BAROCLINIC; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLD SEASON; COLD TEMPERATURES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MEAN-WINDS; OCEAN CONVECTION; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC MODE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84870013864     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00572.1     Document Type: Article

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