Mechanism on how the spring Arctic sea ice impacts the East Asian summer monsoon

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 107-119

  Guo, Dong ^a   Gao, Yongqi ^a,b   Bethke, Ingo ^c   Gong, Daoyi ^d   Johannessen, Ola M ^b   Wang, Huijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; TIMESCALE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; FAR EAST;

EID: 84891660637     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0872-6     Document Type: Article

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