Indian Ocean and monsoon coupled interactions in a warming environment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2439-2454

  Swapna, Panickal ^a   Krishnan, R ^a   Wallace, J M ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Equatorial westerlies; Indian Ocean warming; Weakening of boreal summer monsoon winds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DOWNWELLING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; THERMOCLINE; WESTERLY; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84899631462     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1787-8     Document Type: Article

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