Impact of tropical cyclone development on the instability of South Asian High and the summer monsoon onset over Bay of Bengal

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2603-2616

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Ren, Suling ^a,b,c   Xu, Jianmin ^b   Wang, Dongxiao ^d   Bao, Qing ^a   Liu, Boqi ^a,e   Liu, Yimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Instability; South Asian High; Tropical cyclone; Zonal asymmetric forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EDDY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MONSOON; NUMERICAL METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

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

EID: 84886718020     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1766-0     Document Type: Article

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