Modulation of monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in the recent warming period

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5185-5203

  Sabeerali, C T ^a   Rao, Suryachandra A ^a   George, Gibies ^a   Nagarjuna Rao, D ^a   Mahapatra, S ^a   Kulkarni, A ^a   Murtugudde, Raghu ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

BSISO; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INDIAN OCEAN; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; MISO; RCP4.5;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84901717957     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021261     Document Type: Article

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