A strengthened influence of ENSO on august high temperature extremes over the southern yangtze river valley since the late 1980s

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2205-2221

  Hu, Kaiming ^a   Huang, Gang ^a   Wu, Renguang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD HORIZONTAL TEMPERATURE ADVECTION; DECADAL CHANGE; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFLUENCE OF ENSO; NORTH INDIAN OCEANS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTICYCLONE; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARABIAN SEA; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); MIDDLE EAST; YANGTZE RIVER; YANGTZE VALLEY;

EID: 84876086247     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00277.1     Document Type: Article

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