Out-of-Phase relationship between boreal spring and summer decadal rainfall changes in southern China

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1083-1099

  Zhu, Zhiwei ^a   Li, Tim ^a,b   He, Jinhai ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ENHANCED CONVECTION; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; MARITIME CONTINENT; POSITIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HADLEY CELL; LA NINA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; FAR EAST; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84893186167     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00180.1     Document Type: Article

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