Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intensified by mega-El Niño/southern oscillation and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

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

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5347-5352

  Wang, Bin ^a   Liu, Jian ^b,c   Kim, Hyung Jin ^d   Webster, Peter J ^e   Yim, So Young ^a   Xiang, Baoqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Nanjing Normal University   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS;

EID: 84875863757     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219405110     Document Type: Article

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