Distinguishing interannual variations of the northern and southern modes of the east Asian winter monsoon

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 835-851

  Chen, Zhang ^a,b   Wu, Renguang ^c   Chen, Wen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION CHANGES; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WESTERLY JET STREAMS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAR EAST; INDOCHINA; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84892499912     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00314.1     Document Type: Article

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