The Indo-Australian monsoon and its relationship to ENSO and IOD in reanalysis data and the CMIP3/CMIP5 simulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 3073-3102

  Jourdain, Nicolas C ^a   Gupta, Alexander Sen ^a   Taschetto, Andréa S ^a   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^b   Moise, Aurel F ^c   Ashok, Karumuri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Australian monsoon; CMIP3; CMIP5; ENSO; Indian monsoon; Indonesian rainfall; IOD; Maritime Continent; Monsoon projection; Papuan rainfall

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONVERGENCE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARM POOL;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84888040978     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1676-1     Document Type: Article

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