Subseasonal and interannual temperature variability in relation to extreme temperature occurrence over East Asia

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 9026-9042

  Ito, Hiroyuki ^a   Johnson, Nathaniel C ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Asia; Climate variability; Empirical orthogonal functions; Extreme events; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ASIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EXTREME EVENTS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 84888026731     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00676.1     Document Type: Article

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