Genesis of the South Asian high and its impact on the Asian summer monsoon onset

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2976-2991

  Liu, Boqi ^a,b   Wu, Guoxiong ^b   Mao, Jiangyu ^b   He, Jinhai ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIABATIC PROCESS; MONSOON; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84877681604     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00286.1     Document Type: Article

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