Classifying el niño modoki I and II by different impacts on rainfall in southern China and typhoon tracks

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1322-1338

  Wang, Chunzai ^a   Wang, Xin ^a,b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC; PHILIPPINE SEAS; SOUTH-WESTERLY WINDS; SOUTHERN CHINA; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC; WIND ANOMALIES;

HURRICANES; RAIN; STORMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TYPHOON;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 84874839109     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00107.1     Document Type: Article

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