Seasonal and intraseasonal variations of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation simulated by a regional air-sea coupled model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 315-329

  Fang, Yongjie ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^b   Huang, Anning ^b   Li, Bo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climatological intraseasonal oscillation; East Asian summer monsoon rainfall; regional air sea coupled model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873660369     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1241-6     Document Type: Article

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