Intraseasonal SST-precipitation relationship and its spatial variability over the tropical summer monsoon region

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-61

  Roxy, Mathew ^a   Tanimoto, Youichi ^b,d   Preethi, B ^a   Terray, Pascal ^a,c   Krishnan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

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

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Intraseasonal variability; Ocean atmosphere interaction; SST precipitation relationship

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84879506007     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1547-1     Document Type: Article

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