Interdecadal change of the controlling mechanisms for East Asian early summer rainfall variation around the mid-1990s

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1325-1333

  Yim, So Young ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Kwon, MinHo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

East Asian summer monsoon; El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO); North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Philippine Sea anticyclone; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894306611     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1760-6     Document Type: Article

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