Subtropical High predictability establishes a promising way for monsoon and tropical storm predictions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2718-2722

  Wang, Bin ^a   Xiang, Baoqiang ^a   Lee, June Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MONSOON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TROPIC CLIMATE; TROPICAL STORM; WARMING; WEATHER;

RAIN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WEATHER;

EID: 84874249538     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214626110     Document Type: Article

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