The asymmetric influence of the two types of el niño and la niña on summer rainfall over Southeast China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4567-4582

  Karori, Muhammad Afzaal ^a,b   Li Dr , Jianping ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PAKISTAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; LOWER ATMOSPHERE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE; WARM POOL;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); YANGTZE RIVER; YANGTZE VALLEY;

EID: 84880649194     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00324.1     Document Type: Article

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