Summer high temperature extremes in southeast China: Bonding with the El Niño-southern oscillation and east asian summer monsoon coupled system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4159-4188

  Wang, Weiwen ^a,b   Zhou, Wen ^a   Chen, Deliang ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; EAST ASIAN JET STREAMS; EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; TEMPERATURE ADJUSTMENT;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONSOON; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84901826498     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00545.1     Document Type: Article

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